APM: new guy

[Sam Foster]

Christopher Baker wrote:
 > Are you bring green eggs and ham to the meeting?
 >
 > What do you do? Where do you work?
 >
 > Chris

No green eggs and ham, sorry. I'm a vegetarian so the ham is out. Green 
eggs could be done though. If you're nice to me, I'll consider it for 
next month :)

I'm employed by frogdesign (www.frogdesign.com) as a "design 
technologist (Snr)" (read: front-end / client-side web developer.) I 
support the design teams by evaluating, prototyping and implementing 
designs, and integrate with either our or the client's development team 
to make it happen true to the design vision.
I'm also usually the one charged with creating the end deliverable - 
which is frequently some kind of web-based styleguide or asset library.

I push a lot of files around, and that's where perl comes in. I mostly 
use it to speed up "all the other stuff" that needs to happen, so I 
maximize my time doing the stuff where I can add real value (fancy 
html/css/javascript - where "value" is of course very subjective :). 
I've written scripts to (e.g.) build downloadable zip archives of a 
given page and all its immediate dependancies (images, css etc); convert 
from local to absolute paths; clean out cruft from directory trees, and 
so on. I also maintain locahost.com, where all the logging, redirection, 
emailing etc is handled by a perl/cgi I re-vamped recently.

Some perl-ish ambitions: a configurable (real-time) proxy server for 
mirroring, analyzing and otherwise munging web content; a code-only 
search engine: search for the tags, not the content; a home-grown 
blogging tool that does what I need, and nothing more.

so, that's something about me. I'll see some of you tommorow?

Sam