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Category Archives: Geek Spotlight

Watch out! Adrian is posting about me ;-)

by Jason L Froebe on September 10, 2008, no comments

In his ZDnet blog, Adrian Bridgwater mentions my blog and the latest article I wrote for the ISUG Technical Journal.  This has totally made my month!  (Not counting the blue raspberry slushee zombie baby Perl in the shell Posted by Adrian Bridgwater Why doesn’t anyone talk about computer programming languages these days? I’ve just spent [...]

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FW EmmaJane.net: Making Change Happen

by Jason L Froebe on July 18, 2008, no comments

When I read the first article of Emma Jane Hogbin‘s “Making Change Happen” in Full Circle Magazine’s “Ubuntu Women” column, I was quite impressed.  Having to learn more about what she has to offer to technical knowledge I moseyed (sp?) on over to her website. Making Change Happen Posted by emmajane on Tue, 07/01/2008 – [...]

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Vote for Adrian Bridgwater for Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 08

by Jason L Froebe on July 14, 2008, 2 comments

Not only is Adrian Bridgwater a blogger for ZDNet UK’s Core Techs, he is the editor for the ISUG Technical Journal.  He has been nominated for a Computer Weekly IT Blog Award.  Please go cast a vote for our Adrian! Computer Weekly IT Blog Award -> Programming and technical blogs -> Adrian Bridgwater: Software application [...]

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Geek Spotlight: Michael Peppler

by Jason L Froebe on June 21, 2007, no comments

You are best known for creating the custom build of Perl known as SybPerl back in 1991 when Perl itself was new. What made you decide to create SybPerl? In 1989 I moved from developing on MS-DOS and Waterloo Port (Waterloo Port was a cousin to QNX) to SunOS 4.x. I had no formal software [...]

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Geek Spotlight: Nicola Worthington

by Jason L Froebe on May 18, 2007, 2 comments

Every once in a while, I’m going to try to highlight an individual that stands out from the rest. Earlier today I was fortunate enough to be able to sit down, virtually, with Perl developer, Nicola Worthington…. Nicola, you are well known for your multiple Perl modules in the CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/~nicolaw) registry. What led you [...]

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