Brian d foy
Encyclopedia
Brian D Foy is the publisher and editor of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl
and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl
and Intermediate Perl
. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers
, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference
) and a veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN
and maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl
Learning Perl
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly. It was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz in its first edition . The second edition was coauthored with Tom Christiansen and the third edition was coauthored with...
and Intermediate Perl
Intermediate Perl
Intermediate Perl is a book by Randal L. Schwartz, Brian D Foy and Tom Phoenix, published in 2006 by O'Reilly. It was released as a retitled second edition of Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules by Schwartz and Phoenix, published by O'Reilly in 2003 to favorable reviews.Intermediate Perl...
. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers is part of The Perl Foundation and provides services to user groups for the Perl programming language.Perl Mongers was created in 1998 as a stand-alone organization by brian d foy who formed the first Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, or NY.pm, in 1997 at the First O'Reilly...
, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference
Yet Another Perl Conference
Yet Another Perl Conference, usually given as the abbreviation YAPC, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl computer programming language, usually organised under the auspices of The Perl Foundation and Yet Another Society, a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative...
) and a veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN
CPAN
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...
and maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.
External links
- Author page on O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
- The Perl Review
- The Perl Journal
- Stonehenge Consulting Services
- Perl Mongers website
- Perl training with Foy at Big Nerd Ranch