I just joined this list...

[Hancock Jr, Denis C.]

Well, he was there last year, according to the web site, and being as how YAS is a major sponsor, I would expect him to be there this year.

I saw him three weeks ago in Tucson for the Bioinformatics Conference, and he was well worth the price of admission. (it was an O'Reilly conference, so it was fairly pricy.

I also noticed the Larry Wall gave the welcome address last year.

I have been programming in perl since 1994, and nearly all of it has been in support of the Maize Genome Database in one way or another.  I parse date files, write cgi scripts, fix web pages, and so forth.  My favorite modules are CGI and DBD::Sybase.  After having heard Conway speak last month, I may just have to take a look at Parse::RecDescent as well.

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Denis Hancock, Database Administrator
Maize Genome Database
213 Curtis Hall, University of Missouri
Columbia  MO 65211
(573) 882-1722


 >  -----Original Message-----
 >  From: King, Jonathan W. 
 >  Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:14 PM
 >  To: columbia-pm-list at pm.org
 >  Subject: I just joined this list...
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 >  ...in response to Denis Hancock's invitation printed on the 
 >  mlug list.
 >  
 >  By way of background, I've been a perl programmer since 
 >  1991.  Most of my perl hacking has been in support of 
 >  stimulus construction and data collection/analysis of 
 >  psychology experiments. (I'm in the Psychology Department 
 >  at Mizzou, so this does make sense. :-))
 >  
 >  I was one of Damian Conway's sponsors last year, and I just 
 >  donated again this year.  Any word on whether he will be 
 >  one of the speakers at YAPC this June?
 >  
 >  jking
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