[Mpls-pm] Introduction

[Matthew Johnson]

Hi, I'm Matt Johnson.  I'm a level four and have been with Mind Head 
for 5 years *ding*. (kidding) :)  Nice to meet you, Gary.  Please do 
come to our next meeting.  At one time we has presentations on perlish 
topics, but that has waned of late.  No reason to keep that vacuum you 
work in.  You'll find us as bookish quiet technology types (mostly) 
that have many interests outside of perl (no, really?).

I've been using perl for about 3 or 4 years but that is by no means 
continuously.  I've been a professional software developer for 13 years 
and try to slip perl into my projects whenever I can.  I mostly write 
in Makefile, C, PL/SQL and shell scripting (sh,ksh, and bash).  
Obviously perl is the ideal technology to replace shell scripts, so 
when there isn't a legacy system (or my clients can afford to throw it 
away), I use perl.

What I like to do the most is set up software development systems for 
other programmers to use.  A software developer developer if you will.  
This includes installing/building appropriate technologies for 
development as well as mentoring junior programers on software 
engineering.  I've worked in the Financial, Retail and Healthcare 
industries and currently run my own business, MRJ Solutions, Inc.

Have a great night Gary, and hope to see you next time.

   -Matt Johnson


On Feb 22, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Gary Vollink wrote:

> [snip]
> I've been casually writing Perl for about eight years, using it for
> project work for four years, and just lately I'm starting to need to
> crack-open modules.  Yesterday, I opened a module, ended up at the
> author's home page, landed at his Journal entry at 'use Perl' (where I
> opened an account: GAVollink), and found reference to Perl Mongers
> groups, and quickly found this one.  I live in Shakopee, and work in
> Edina.
>
> One thing is... I've always done Perl in a vacuum.  Besides
> occasionally reading module code, or someone else's program (through
> anonymous download)... I've had zero direct interaction with anybody
> who actually writes Perl, until now.
>
> Hi, I'm Gary... nice to meet you.
> [snip]