Follett Library Resources is the leading wholesaler of library books to the K-12 market in the U.S. The TITLEWAVE website is an online application that helps librarians select materials for purchase. Its strategic importance to the company cannot be overstated.
Socialtext makes wikis for the enterprise. I've worked both as release manager, and most recently leading Socialtext Open, the open source release of Socialtext's wiki package.
After being promoted to manager, I helped scale the department upward to include six programmers and a system administrator.
When I started at FLR, there was one programmer, one system administrator and no repeatable process. Releases were made by FTPing tarballs to production servers, and version control was made by occassionally zipping up snapshots and saying "Hey, Bob, don't touch foo.html for the next half hour".
FSC is the leading creator of library automation software for the K-12 market. If you checked out a book in a school library in the past 20 years, chances are it was done with a Follett Software circulation system.
In the winter of 1995, the company president charged with me modernizing the external website and creating an intranet.
For five years I worked in DOS writing library automation software in C, and later on the Macintosh in C++.
S.D.C. owned and operated 70 retail clothing stores under the names Just Pants, Button Up and What a Deal!
TPF is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code.
I've been active and vocal in the Perl community for quite a while now, including:
Downloadable versions of slides from my presentation are usually available online.
Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works, 9/23/2006
Practical Perl Testing, with chromatic, Ian Langworth and Bill Odom, 8/3/2005
Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works, 8/4/2005
Advice For Open Source Job Seekers, 7/29/2004
Get Out Of Technical Debt Now!, 6/26/2006
Pragmatic Job Hunting, 6/28/2006
Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works, 6/29/2005
Perl Wizardry Without An Editor, 6/16/2004
The Open Source Programmer's Guide To Getting A Great Job, 6/16/2004
Automated Testing Of Large-Scale Projects, 6/17/2004
Get Out Of Technical Debt Now!, 8/15/2006
Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works, 4/15/2005
The A-Z Guide Of CPAN Modules For New Authors, 10/11/2005
Preventing Crisis: Project estimation and tracking that works, 3/22/2005
Perl Security With Tainting, 8/10/2004
Perl Wizardry From The Command Line, 2/10/2004
Automated Testing Of Large Projects With Perl, 8/12/2003
Automated Testing With Perl, 2/11/2003
Introduction to Perl Programming
Advanced Perl Programming
Testing With WWW::Mechanize
101 Things Every Perl Programmer Should Know, 4/10/2007 and 4/24/2007
(This talk was the inspiration for the site perl101.org.)
New Modules For a New Year, 1/9/2007
Perl Security With Tainting, 8/3/2004
The Open Source Programmer's Guide To Getting A Great Job, 6/8/2004
Module Building 101, 1/7/2004
(This talk inspired me to write Module::Starter.)
A Field Guide To The Perl Command Line, 11/4/2003
Automated Testing With Perl, 5/19/2003
Automated Testing Of Large Projects With Perl, 4/14/2004
Introduction to Automated Testing, 1/14/2004
Get Out Of Technical Debt Now!, 9/28/2007
The A-Z Guide Of CPAN Modules For New Authors, 10/25/2005
Automated Testing Of Large Projects With Perl, 9/25/2003
Mac OS X Tiger In A Nutshell: Updates on entire book. Co-author credit. (2005)
Perl Best Practices:
Technical reviewer (2005)
"I would like to express my deepest gratitude... [t]o
Andy Lester, for inspiring with his deep understanding
of, and passion for, the best coding practices." -- p. xxi
Mac OS X Panther In A Nutshell: Updates to Unix command chapter (2004)
Spidering Hacks: Author (2003)
Google Hacks:
Technical editor (2003)
"And to Andy Lester, our technical editor, goes much appreciation for his thorough nitpicking." -- p. xiii
Unix Power Tools, 3rd ed.: Technical reviewer for 10 chapters (2001)
Pro Perl Debugging: Technical review and co-author/writing mentor. (2005)
Pro Perl: Technical review (2005)
Code Complete, 2nd Edition: Review on about half (2004)
Perl, CGI & JavaScript Complete, 2nd ed.: Update author for Perl sections; updated book for Perl 5.8.0 (2003)
XML Primer Plus: Technical review (2002)
Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours: research, development & first draft for chapter 22, "Awk & Perl", plus technical review (2002)
SQL quick reference chart: Never published (2001)
Perl quick reference chart: Technical review, and rewrote about half (2000)
In addition to attending numerous conferences and user group session, I've also taken Edward Tufte's "Visualizing Data" seminar, and Stephen Covey's "Living The Seven Habits."
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