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jrsimmon
<p>The pic is of my son. He's awesome.</p><br>
<p><b>Who I am</b><br>
Graduated with a BS in CSCI 2001. Went to work for a large corporations's retail group and have been there ever since (I know more about what happens when you spend $$ than any sane person should). I don't code that much anymore, but when I do my languages of choice are perl and C++.
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<b>Why I use perl</b><br>
Well, perl is just <b>fun</b>. I started using perl after I'd been out of school for a couple of years when I needed something more flexible than VB for reporting/automation. I needed something that could interface with Excel and a particular database. Perl, with Win32::OLE and DBI, was perfect for those purposes. Most of what I know about perl I picked up here at PM or have learned in order to solve a problem at work.
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<b>What I'm doing with perl now</b><br>
I'm looking for perl to yet again simplify a process at work. Rather than use the heavy middleware appl stack I currently have for our web-enabled reporting (something akin to using a sledgehammer to put up wall-hangers), I'm trying to learn enough CGI and GD::Graph (not to mention CSS) to implement it strictly in perl.
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<b>Why I frequent PM</b><br>
I've never run across a forum that even came close to the usefulness of this site. The Monks here are not only knowledgeable, but also exceedingly friendly and helpful. I also am a strong believer in learning by teaching. When I take the time to think about how to explain something to someone else, I often realize there's some detail I need to understand better before being able to explain it to someone else.
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<b>Nodes/Other stuff I want to remember</b><br>
[id://670583]<br>
[id://780716]<br>
[id://353259]<br>
[id://505690|Succinct regex matching rules]<br>
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161872/hidden-features-of-perl]<br>
Read [Grandfather]'s nodes. I inevitably learn something when I do.<br>
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