[Phoenix-pm] Introductions and Good-byes
Douglas E. Miles
perlguy at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 13 16:44:59 PDT 2005
Michael Friedman wrote:
> 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. :-(
Good luck! We'll see you when you get back if not before.
> 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!)
Wow. I can't believe there are no groups in the Bay Area. That
definitely makes me appreciate the turnout we've had in the past that
much more.
> I'm looking forward to seeing y'all either soon or in a year!
>
> -- Mike
>
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> Phone: 480-456-0880 Tempe, Arizona
> FAX: 270-721-8034 <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu>
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