Apress open source editor Jason Gilmore asks me five questions, and I answered them.
I like this part the best. I should probably wait until I'm up for a few hours to do these things.
WJG: What's it like working for Perl guru (and Apress author!) Randal Schwartz?
BDF: It's almost like not working for him, since he lives in Portland and I live in Chicago.
They're still working on getting
my name just right.
Nuclear physics
rafael on 2005-03-01T11:19:50
You say that
...
I started out in experimental nuclear physics, which really means I had to deal with a lot of computer simulations which output a lot of text. I started using Perl to extract the parts of those reports that I needed.
How fun, that's exactly how I started Perl. (I was an intern at EDF -- Electricité De France -- at this time.)
Getting your name right
rooneg on 2005-03-01T15:19:41
That's surprising, they didn't have any trouble with getting chromatic's name right in "Practical Subversion", although it did take some reminding to get the copy editors to stop "correcting" it.
