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brian d foy

Perl trainer and author

Areas of Expertise:

  • Perl
  • code review
  • software testing
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Biography

brian d foy is a prolific Perl trainer and writer, and runs The Perl Review to help people use and understand Perl through educational, consulting, code review, and more. He's a frequent speaker at Perl conferences. He's the co-author of Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl and the author of Mastering Perl. He was been an instructor and author for Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009, a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, and a die-hard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc., which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts.

Books

Learning Perl Learning Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz , Tom Phoenix , brian d foy
Fifth Edition June 2008
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

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Mastering Perl Mastering Perl
by brian d foy
July 2007
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

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Intermediate Perl Intermediate Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz , brian d foy , Tom Phoenix
March 2006
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $21.99

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Learning Perl Learning Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz , Tom Phoenix , brian d foy
Fourth Edition July 2005
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