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brian d foy

Perl trainer and author

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Biography

brian d foy has been an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services since 1998, a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, and a die-hard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc., which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl, and is a frequent speaker at conferences including the Perl Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC. His writings on Perl appear in The O'Reilly Network, The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs, and The Perl Review, on use.perl.org, and in several Perl usenet groups.

Books

Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz , Tom Phoenix , brian d foy Fifth Edition June 2008 Print: $39.99 Ebook: $31.99 Bundle: $51.99 (4) (Read Reviews)	Mastering Perl by brian d foy July 2007 Print: $39.99 Ebook: $31.99 Bundle: $51.99 (4) (Read Reviews)
Intermediate Perl by Randal L. Schwartz , brian d foy , Tom Phoenix March 2006 Print: $39.99 Ebook: $31.99 Bundle: $51.99 (5) (Read Reviews)	Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz , Tom Phoenix , brian d foy Fourth Edition July 2005 OUT OF PRINT (4) (Read Reviews)

Articles

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Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming
Publish Date: Apr. 12, 2007Inside every tangle of obfuscated Perl code is a clean, well-architected gem struggling to emerge from its cocoon. brian d foy has spent a lot of time thinking about this for his new book, Mastering Perl, and has come up with a Top Five list of things that every Perl programmer should be thinking about when writing code. Consumer Camera Time-Lapse Movies
Publish Date: May. 18, 2005Pocket digicams are great for still photos, and some of them even record quality video. But you can push the envelope even further with these devices, such as by creating time-lapse movies. Here's how two photo novices created their first production. BBEdit 8.0 -- A Developer's Viewpoint
Publish Date: Dec. 21, 2004BBEdit is a great all-around text editor. But how does the latest version--BBEdit 8.0--fare for the working developer? We asked brian d foy to put it through its paces, and here's what he found. Automatically Import Images into iPhoto
Publish Date: Nov. 3, 2004If you're using a Mac OS X Bluetooth-enabled laptop with a Bluetooth camera phone, it seems like it would be easy to automate the process of moving images from the phone to iPhoto. Wonk! Not true. There are potholes along the way. In this article, brian d foy does his best to fill those dips in the road and create a fully automatic image transfer process. Cleaning iPhoto
Publish Date: Feb. 27, 2004When you have thousands of images in iPhoto, and don't have time to cull them manually, scripting starts to look very appealing. brian d foy shows you some helpful AppleScripts and Perl scripts you can use to clean up your iPhoto libraries. Cleaning iTunes
Publish Date: Jan. 17, 2003The Gracenote CD Database is a handy tool to help us classify music in our iTunes databases, but the CDDB is not perfect. brian d foy shows you how to easily tidy up your records by using iTunes' built-in tools and a little AppleScript. Controlling iTunes with Perl
Publish Date: Nov. 22, 2002Perl can interact with Aqua applications through AppleScript. Using Mac::iTunes as a back end, you can create multiple iTunes interfaces that can be used on the same computer or on other computers on the same network. brian d foy shows how anyone on the network, including AirPort networks, can control iTunes using this module.

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"Intermediate Perl" at the Portuguese Perl Workshop

May 20 2008

I'll be at the Portuguese Perl Workshop on June 6-7. Before the conference, I'm also giving Stonehenge's "Intermediate Perl" master class on June 4-5. The master class format is a two-day, low-cost format that allows the trainer to attend the the... read more

Mastering Perl tutorial at OSCON

April 12 2008

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Perl 5.10 for Perl's 20th birthday

December 18 2007

Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! Perl 5.10 isn’t just a bug fix version: it’s full of new features that I’m eager to use: named captures in… read more

Chicago Perl Hackathon

November 27 2007

The Chicago Perl Hackathon is Friday, Dec 14 to Sunday, Dec 16 at Hosteling International, 24 E. Congress Parkway in downtown Chicago (which is also in walking distance of most of the populoar tourist stuff). Meet other Perl people, work on other people’s projects, get other people to work on… read more

2007 White Camel Awards

July 25 2007

Allison Randal Allison is at the center of the Perl community. She’s been president of The Perl Foundation, a leader and manager of various parts of the Perl 6 and Parrot efforts, as well a Perl author and editor. Her latest contribution to Perl is version 2 of the Artistic License, under which most… read more

The Perl Review, Summer 2007

June 23 2007

The Summer 2007 issue of The Perl Review is out, and it’s a special edition for the href="https://perlworkshop.dk/">YAPC::NA sponsored by href="https://www.livetext.com">LiveText (who are looking for good Perl programmers in the Chicago area). href="https://www.theperlreview.com/Images/covers/v3i3-cover-large.png" >This issue’s cover is some of the conference detritus I’ve collected over the years. The >Summer 2007 issue of The Perl… read more

2007 White Camel nomination process open

April 26 2007

It’s time to nominate recipients for the White Camel award, which recognizes non-technical achievement in Perl. Coding is easy, but the people who make the hard slog to support the community and the continued usefulness of Perl are rare and valuable, just like white camels. I invented the White Camel Award… read more

Perl's Business::ISBN now handles Bookland

March 14 2007

I’m a couple of months late for mandatory ISBN-13 support, but I’ve uploaded Business::ISBN-2.00_01 so people who depend on the module can look at the new interface and make comments on it. It supports ISBN-13 seamlessy. Most of the internals are completely new: this was my second-ever module, and I… read more

The Perl Review, Spring 2007

March 12 2007

The next issue of The Perl Review is out, and it’s a special edition for the Nordic Perl Workshop! Not only that, the PDF-only price is now only $7. Subscribe now to beat the price increase for US postage rate increases in May. The Spring 2007 issue of The Perl Review… read more

Google Summer of Code 2007

March 06 2007

It’s almost summer again, so it’s time for students to figure out what to do with all that free time? Want to work in open source but need some scratch to keep you in ramen and Mountain Dew? Let Google give you a big bag of money to do it… read more

Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Challenge

March 06 2007

Komodo 4.0 now allows XPI extensions, the same thing that Firefox has. Create something cool for the Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Challenge and you could win some money or prizes. The contest is open until April 1 (no, really), and you can use the 21-day free preview of Komodo to do… read more

MiniCPAN and GrandPerspective

February 28 2007

The mini-CPAN, a smaller version of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network that includes just the latest versions and excludes a few big things, is now about 700 MB on my machine. That means that it can’t quite fit onto a single CD, at least without removing parts of it. What… read more

Learning Perl Study Guide

January 04 2007

A while ago I wrote the Learning Perl Study Guide for O’Reilly. It’s 64 pages of additional exercises and answers for the end-of-chapter exercises in Learning Perl, 4th Edition. At the moment it’s available through Pearson educational channels as a bundle with Learning Perl. At Stonehenge we use these guides… read more

2006 White Camel Awards

July 26 2006

The white camel is a special sort of beast. You’ve seen pictures of camels. and they were probably brown. Every so often, a white camel appears, and camelherders consider them to be extra special and more valuable. The Perl community has its own valuable members who go far beyond their… read more

The Perl Review interviews Curtis "Ovid" Poe

July 20 2006

Earlier this summer, I interviewed Curtis “Ovid” Poe about Perl Hacks, grants from The Perl Foundation, logic programming, and his effort to make CGI programming less tedoius and more productive through Class::CGI. Now you can read his answers! read more

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