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My Open-Source Contributions

I'm keeping a list of all of the open-source projects that I have contributed to over the years.

CPAN Modules

• Schedule::RateLimiter - I wrote it
• DBD::Multi - I designed it and wrote some of the code. Now, I maintain it.
• AnyData - Patched some bugs
• Date::Tie - Patched some bugs, added some features.
• DBD::AnyData - Patched some bugs. Gave a public talk on the module.
• DBD::Multiplex - Patched some bugs
• DBIx::SearchProfiles - Gave a public talk on the module.
• HTML::FromText - Reported some bugs
• Ima::DBI - Submitted patch for a bug
• Mail::Imapclient - Patched some bugs
• Net::Netmask - Fixed a bug
• Net::Google - Proposed a patch to fix an install bug.
• NEXT - Patched a bug
• SQL::Statement - Patched some bugs
• Text::MicroMason - Patched a bug
• XML::GXML - Added some recursive features, fixed some bugs.
• Cache::Cache - Fixed a bug.

Conferences & User Groups

• Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (PPW) - Workshop Cabal Member.
• Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) - I was a speaker at the 2005 YAPC.
• Pittsburgh Perl Mongers - I am a member, and have given several talks.

PostgreSQL

• ERserver replication project - Provided some patches on the open-source branch of this project to make the perl scripts work properly.
• Slony replication project - Provided patches to support table inheritance. Did some code review work for the installation scripts for the author.

Web Sites

• Perl Monks - I helped encourage my employer to give them three dedicated servers, free of charge. I help them occasionaly with server issues, though lately that's been more somebody else department.
• CPAN - I helped encourage my employer to set up a CPAN mirror. In time, it became the primary site, www.cpan.org. I'm the tech point of contact for the server.
• Perl6.org - A small project of mine. Intended to provide a resource for Perl 6 developers and to eventually provide documentation to people converting from Perl 5.