[Brisbane-pm] Introductions

[Dave Matthews]

Hi Guys,

Nice idea Jacinta to intro and spread some perl joy.

I'm self-employed - started off with perl as a academic sysadmin in the perl4 days - it was great for automating and web work and a lot faster than coding in C 
Turned my hand to IT contracting (networking, security, glorified sysadmin) where I continue to 'build up my toolbox' with nifty perl code/utils etc.

It's fantastic for glueing disparate systems together - mostly I work on unix systems but when you have to automate something from Win32 land it's quite doable.

The funniest perl experience I can remember is meeting Randal at a SANS conference then seeing him getting into Karaoke that night - I think he enjoys it more than his coding!

Cheers,
Dave


On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:38:50PM +1000, Cole, Ken (ABRC) wrote:
> I'm game :)
> 
> I'm Ken and I am the IT Manager for the Asia Pacific region of a very
> large Worldwide company.
> 
> We use Perl extensively in our web based business system written and
> maintained here in Brisbane.
> 
> I am not involved in any way in the Perl community, if there is one, but
> would like to be.
> 
> Therefore, I am very interested to see how many members there are on
> this list so don't be shy.
> 
> Ken
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacinta Richardson [mailto:jarich at perltraining.com.au] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:43 AM
> > To: brisbane-pm at pm.org
> > Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Introductions
> > 
> > G'day Brisbane folk,
> > 
> > I think it would be a great way to start conversation 
> > happening if everyone who still pays attention to this list 
> > were to introduce themselves.
> > 
> > This has the added benefit that if I'm the only one who does 
> > this then I will know that Perl really is absent in Brisbane 
> > and that I can ship the PHP folk up there.  :P
> > 
> > So.  I'm Jacinta Richardson.  I'm the training coordinator 
> > for Perl Training Australia.  I write Perl programs for a 
> > living, and write and run courses.  We've just about finished 
> > our Perl Security course and will be presenting it in 
> > Brisbane in a few weeks at the SAGE-AU conference (16th - 
> > 20th Aug).  If you'd like to meet up with Paul and I for some 
> > drinks or the like, please get in touch.
> > 
> > I also helped kick-start Melbourne PM which has been going 
> > well ever since, I'm the programme chair for the Open Source 
> > Developers' 
> > Conference (1st - 3rd December 2004 in Melbourne) and I'm 
> > jarich on Perl Monks (http://www.perlmonks.org).
> > 
> > I hope someone wants to meet up with us for drinks, it might 
> > even be a good excuse for hosting the inaugural meeting for 
> > 2004.  We're going to be based out at The Bardon Centre, 
> > Bardon, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane but I'm willing to taxi over to 
> > where the life of the party is.  ;)
> > 
> > All the best,
> > 
> >        Jacinta Richardson
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