[Phoenix-pm] Introductions and Good-byes
Michael Friedman
friedman at highwire.stanford.edu
Mon Jun 13 11:16:21 PDT 2005
In the spirit of introductions, I'm Mike Friedman, the red-headed guy
who showed up to most of the meetings until his baby was born (last
August, 10 monts ago). I live in Tempe, but am usually willing to drive
to meetings. I am one of the lucky few who gets to write perl code all
day at work, where I designed and maintain (with help) a huge perl
installation with hundreds of Objects to handle putting scientific
journal articles onto the web.
My interests lie in 'getting things done' with Perl, but I try to keep
up when Scott starts explaining Perl internals and I find architecture
questions really interesting. I *love* Perl's object model and use it
to great advantage when I can and think automated testing is the best
thing ever. I also do Java programming and have been a long-time
Macintosh fan/evangelist. Outside of computing, I have a 10-month-old
daughter who takes up all my free time. :-)
I've attended every Perlmongers meeting I could and would love to get
the group back together. Most of the time there were 5-6 of us at
meetings, which meant we fit well around a conference table. The only
trouble I have with meeting at coffee shops or bars is that most
presentations involved the computer & projector, which doesn't work so
well w/o a screen. Perhaps we could all crowd around a laptop for
presentations, but that seems uncomfortable. (And as for paper --
paper?? What's that?)
Now for the sad/happy news. My wife, who teaches at ASU, has won a
prestigious fellowship to do research at UC Santa Cruz this upcoming
academic year, so we'll be moving to the Bay Area in about 5-6 weeks.
We'll be back in AZ a year from August, a.k.a. as *late* in the summer
as possible. :-) So if there's a meeting before I leave, I'd love to
attend, but otherwise, I'm not going to be able to make them for a
while. :-(
I really enjoy Phoenix.pm, so I'll stay on the mailing list even though
I'll be in CA. (There's no PerlMongers group in the Bay Area anyway.
They're all defunct.) I hope you can get the physical meetings back
together, they were always interesting and fun. (Thanks Doug!)
I'm looking forward to seeing y'all either soon or in a year!
-- Mike
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