[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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> Michael Friedman                  HighWire Press, Stanford Southwest
> Phone: 480-456-0880                                   Tempe, Arizona
> FAX:   270-721-8034                  <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu>
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