User since: Jun 26, 2000 at 16:47 UTC (25 years ago) Last here: Jun 09, 2009 at 15:32 UTC (16 years ago) Experience: 3569 Level: Curate (13) Writeups: 195 Location: Ottawa,Ontario Canada   Mick's Pages User's localtime: Mar 27, 2025 at 17:47 -05 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

Amazing how horrible a picture is when taken early on a Sunday morning.... (~04:30 AM)

A little about me (so far):

I'm a software designer working in IS at Nortel Networks. I have chosen Perl as the programming language after inheriting a database reporting system which was written in Perl 4. This was about 4 years ago and I haven't looked back since.

I just started getting into WIN32 Perl programming and have found the existing modules in ActivePerl quite useful. I guess I'll soon have to try some GUI programming since this is what users want.

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My first attempt playing with WIN32 on NT is Simple WIN32 Service Test
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Some personal/professional views in My philosophy on coding (in Perl and other languages)
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I am currently working on a book about learning how to program and Perl is the implementation language. Feel free to add your comments or suggestions or even off-the-Wall (heheh) ideas at Perl for Non-Programmers... . Any and all ideas will be gratefully accepted.
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More of my personal opinions at The Illusion of One-Offs . Let me know what you think.
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"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles." - Miracle Max, from The Princess Bride