[tpm] Hello! Toronto

[Kartik Thakore]

Hi Madison,
I am not new to Toronto. I am new to perl, and this mailing list. I  
wanted to know if Toronto mongrers do any events?
Kartik Thakore

On 20-Aug-09, at 4:25 PM, Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:

> Kartik Thakore wrote:
>> Hello mongers,
>> I am a newcomer to perl land. I started hacking perl 3 months ago.  
>> Currently I am working on the SDL perl module. Http://sdl.perl.org.
>> I wanted to know what Toronto perl hackers do? Fun stuff to look  
>> out for and so on. Is there a irc channel somewhere?
>> And i just wanted to say hi!
>> Kartik Thakore
>
> Hiya!
>
>  Welcome to Toronto! I moved here 14 years ago from New Brunswick,  
> and have found this community very welcoming. I am sure you will, too.
>
>  Personally, I code perl for fun and profit. My day job (main  
> client) is a local ISP that I've been writing a management system  
> for this last year. As a hobby I've been working on a suite of  
> modules to use as a "rapid development architecture"... Basically a  
> suite that will handle all of my usual portable code; Log functions,  
> config files support, translation, templating and so forth. This  
> grew out of a backup program I wrote in perl some years back and  
> plan to re-write using my RDA modules "some day real soon now". :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Madi