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The hats I wear at work include: accessibility consultant; information architect; software developer (of the agile/XP/TDD breed - mostly in Perl); usability consultant; web site designer.

My non-work hats are none of your business :-)

Things other perlmonks wrote that I have found interesting:

• Blessables -- What Can You Make Into Objects?
• Schwartzian Transform
• Arrays are not lists
• On reinventing the wheel
• Code Smarter
• Net::Ping, the mini series
• Are debuggers good?
• Extreme programming... in perl?
• use CGI or die;
• (tye)Re: one-liner hogs
• R0z3z 4r3 R3d
• Refactoring
• Scalars, Lists, and Arrays
• Refactoring: Soft-code class name in factory method
• No excuses about not using CGI.pm
• Suggestions for working with poor code
• Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO
• Random NonHome Nodes
• The great ball of mud
• Resorting to Sorting
• Design Patterns Considered Harmful
• Loops, the scalar range operator, and objects
• Why I Hate Nested If-Else blocks
• Mommy, what does $this mean?
• Re: Non- recursive permutation of arrays.
• The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan!
• (tye)Re: Private Class Methods
• The Joy of Test
• Griping about Typing
• Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz?
• Regression testing with dependencies
• Automated software testing: emulation of interfaces using Test::MockObject
• Unit Testing Generated HTML
• Backtracking through the regex world
• What goes in a test suite?
• Proxy Objects
• Re: Naming convention for Object Variables
• Re: On timely destruction?
• Further adventures with testing
• Re: Comparison, questions for Postgres, MySQL
• Perl Style Guides for Large Projects
• DON'T Language Guess from IP
• MOPT-01 - assumptions and spaces
• MOPT-02 - substitution and formal systems
• $bad_names eq $bad_design
• MOPT-03 - identification, part 1
• MOPT-04 - identification, part 2
• Best Practices for Exception Handling
• overkill anti-caching CGI headers
• On debugging "Premature End of S‎crip‎t" errors
• Small test harness for testing basic auth
• Perl Testing and Quality Assurance

What monks have been saying about Perl6 (something I'm looking forward to immensely):

• Larry Wall: Apocalypse 1
• Perl 6 Apocalypse 2
• Exegesis 2 - Perl 6
• Isn't that nice?
• NO PERL 6
• Perl 6 is too complex
• (Perl6) Groking Continuations
• Favorite Perl 6 feature?
• Perl 6 feature that scares me the most:
• Perl 6: Will we use it?
• Macros, LFSPs and LFMs

Things I have written that I hope you will find interesting:

• Perl and Prolog and Continuations... oh my!
• Re^2: How to morph a plain module to OO
• Re: Using Capabilities?
• lvalue considered harmful...
• Flyweights - different meaning in perl?
• Class::InsideOut - yet another riff on inside out objects.
• Micro Mocking: using local to help test subs
• Fun with Hook::LexWrap and code instrumentation

I'm interested in perl refactorings. Both dws and stephen have started lists of perl refactorings on their home nodes and schwern has some relevant talks. If I ever get the spare time I would like to setup a Wiki for this sort of thing :-)

My top ten and bottom ten nodes by reputation..

Am also BillyGoatGruff on occasion.