[Phoenix-pm] Phoenix.pm Status

[Victor Odhner]

Doug, could you jot down a quick list of chores needing doing?

Also, it's probably time to review who we are and why we're here.  Can 
anyone tell us how many people have been subscribing to the list, how 
many have been making it to meetings, and where they live?  Maybe we 
should all check in with some profile information, including geography. 
  I'll start.

I have not made any meetings yet, but have benefited from the list from 
time to time.  I live at Thunderbird Rd. and the SR51 and work 8 miles 
east of there at Raintree and the 101, so my convenient reach for 
meetings and GTs is sort of an oval with foci at the Scottsdale and Sky 
Harbor airports.

Personal profile:  I am a seasoned Unix programmer and use a dual boot 
XP/Linux system at home.  I programmed in Burroughs/Unisys ALGOL from 
1968-1980, in Honeywell COBOL and PL/I from 1981-1995, in Unix C and 
shells since 1988, and in Perl for 11 years.  I'm now mostly in C with 
bits of shell and Perl; anything ad hoc I will definitely do in Perl.  I 
did Perl CGIs almost exclusively during 2000-2003, and know enough to do 
anything I need to do in Perl.  But I only rank as a "Perl User" 
according to Tom Christiansen's rankings:

   <http://www.redfolder.net/purelith/perl_mastery.html>

... with a touch of "Perl Adept"; but I do not aspire to most of the 
attributes of a "Hacker", "Guru" or "Wizard".  In response to the last 
line of the "Wizard" definition, for me "the game" is always automating 
a business process.  Many of my co-workers, who specialize in C and Java 
and VB, come to me with Perl questions; so apparently I do more with 
Perl than most people.  But I often Google for simple pointers.

I wrote an object oriented inference engine in 1984 in Honeywell TEX 
just for fun; but I have not done much with formal objects, though I do 
build some three- and four-level object structures using references.  I 
have never programmed in modperl.  For recreation I play the guitar 
(folk, country and campfire Christian), and ride my recumbent bike 
around the Valley.  I'd like to teach English as a Second Language.

Thanks,
Vic