Nat Torkington

Nat Torkington

Biography

Nat has chaired the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and other O'Reilly conferences for over a decade. He ran the first web server in New Zealand, co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook, and was one of the founding Radar bloggers. He lives in New Zealand and consults in the Asia-Pacific region.

Books

Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen , Nat Torkington
Second Edition August 2003
Print: $49.95
Ebook: $39.99

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Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen , Nat Torkington
August 1998
OUT OF PRINT
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Slinky SliMP3: An Affordable MP3 Stereo Component
Publish Date: Dec. 11, 2002With Christmas right around the corner, what does self-respecting geek Nat Torkington want under his tree? A hardware MP3 player that connects to his stereo and his home network. Read on to find out how well he likes it. Passport is Evil
Publish Date: Jun. 18, 2001After Passport, it will become even harder to use the Web without handing over control of your personal privacy, says Nat Torkington. University of Perl Wrap-Up
Publish Date: Nov. 10, 2000If you missed this year's University of Perl, don't miss Nat Torkington's wrap-up. Nat gives you a brief overview of the classes, the environment, and the students who took part in O'Reilly's four-city tutorial tour.

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Richard Jefferson Interviewed in Com Ciência, December 24 2008
Wikipedia and Nature, December 21 2008
Flickr Community Fills Gap, December 21 2008
Open Source Mobile Roundup, December 03 2008
Get One Give One For Christmas, November 23 2008
iGEM Congratulations to Newcastle, November 21 2008
Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud, November 20 2008
Lessig on Culture and Change, November 12 2008
3D Printers Now As Cheap as Laser Printers Were In 1985, October 30 2008
World Plone Day, October 17 2008
Torkington's Law, October 13 2008
Effect of the Depression on Technology, October 07 2008
Mobile Advertising: You're Doing It Wrong, October 07 2008
The Connected Economy, October 07 2008
Numbers for Digital's Rise, October 06 2008
Two Great Education Talks at Ignite Philly II, September 27 2008
2008 New Zealand Open Source Awards, September 27 2008
Wingman: In-Browser Validation, September 18 2008
Software Freedom Day, September 14 2008
Book Review: Nudge, September 12 2008
Daniel Suarez: Bot-Mediated Realities, September 12 2008
Auckland University Bioengineering Institute, September 11 2008
OFF=ON Trend and Ubiquitous Computing, September 04 2008
Improving Highschool Science Education, August 28 2008
Radar Theme: Materials Science, August 14 2008
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Radar Theme: Clean Energy Tech, August 08 2008
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Guessing gender from browser history, August 05 2008
Radar Theme: Make, August 05 2008
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Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, July 31 2008
Random OSCON Tidbits, July 31 2008
Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, July 31 2008
Marc Fleury and Home Automation, July 30 2008
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OSCON in 37 Minutes, July 29 2008
Nokia to buy and open source Symbian, June 25 2008
On Wikipedia, storms, teacups, and _why's notability, June 16 2008
Thinking in Wikis, June 16 2008
Web 2.0 Is From Mars, Enterprise Is Up Uranus, June 05 2008
Can You Feel The Love, Twitter?, June 05 2008
Mobile Internet, May 27 2008
Gandhi on Ubicomp, May 13 2008
Teaching Kids Programming, May 12 2008
Radar Roundup: Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), April 08 2008
Radar Roundup: Web, March 31 2008
Disks have become tapes, March 20 2008
Subscription Music: Which Is It?, March 19 2008
Simplicity, March 18 2008
Radar Roundup: Brains, March 17 2008
Radar Roundup: UI, March 11 2008
I Thought You Guys Were Supposed To Be Utopian: The EFF at Etech, March 04 2008
Radar Roundup: Data Mining and Visualization, March 02 2008
Radar Roundup, February 21 2008
Lessig '08, February 20 2008
Synthetic Biology and Personal Genomics, February 18 2008
Artistic License 2.0 and ... REM?!, February 16 2008
Google Plays to Microsoft's Weaknesses, February 08 2008
Industry Standard as prediction market, February 07 2008
Television New Zealand Gives Up on DRM, February 07 2008
ETech: Tutorials, January 22 2008
YPulse College Mashup, January 22 2008
Dangers of remote Javascript, January 20 2008
Congrats to Yossi Vardi, January 10 2008
Scratch conference, December 24 2007
Sex, math, and scientific achievement, December 20 2007
Our methodology, December 20 2007
Yahoo! spanked over copyright in China, December 20 2007
Message from the Web, December 17 2007
NYT and Sun on Concurrency, December 17 2007
Amazon SimpleDB is built on Erlang, December 15 2007
ETech and the Economist, December 14 2007
Evaporative cooling of group beliefs, December 13 2007
Outsourced identity, December 12 2007
Open Government Summit, December 12 2007
Top 6 Stories we WON'T see in 2008, December 11 2007
Stories we want to see in 2008, December 11 2007
Top 10 Stories we WON'T see in 2008, December 11 2007
Nick Carr discovers Software Above the Level of a Single Device, December 08 2007
The significance of Google's Android, December 06 2007
Finding opportunities, December 04 2007
Dollars for nothing and your LiveJournal (almost) for free, December 03 2007
Google Highly Open Participation Contest, November 28 2007
Value of Public Data, November 27 2007
Global Venture Capital, November 09 2007
Exchange Rate and Silicon Valley, November 07 2007
A Visit to Vanuatu, October 28 2007
Facebook Kremlinology, October 25 2007
Twitter is low-expectation IRC, October 24 2007
Questioning functional programming, October 16 2007
Geeks on TV, October 12 2007
Yahoo! Music spits the dummy, October 09 2007
Maxed out on social software, October 09 2007
Chart Junk in the New York Times, September 26 2007
Visualize your Internet use with Packet Garden, September 24 2007
Mailing List Failure Modes, September 22 2007
Throng Unveils New TV Listing Design, September 21 2007
Stephen Fry: Now Blogger and Gadget-Head, September 19 2007
Beautiful Libraries of the World, September 08 2007
Clever UI: Subway Map for Intranet, September 07 2007
IBM Releases CoScripter for Firefox, September 06 2007
OOXML stalls at ISO, September 05 2007
Great Blend: The Future of Media, September 04 2007
iPhone Accelerometer Hack, August 31 2007
Peak Google, August 23 2007
OSCON: Bring Your Camcorders, July 20 2007
Support Open Source: Seduce A Woman Today, July 13 2007
Google's Authentic Voice Problem, July 11 2007
Google Earth Virtual Biking Reality, July 09 2007
YPulse Mashup, June 15 2007
Commercial OLPC Opportunities, June 15 2007
Four Reasons To Come To Energy Innovation Conference (and Two Reasons Not To), June 12 2007
The Faint Signals of Concurrency, June 07 2007
What's New With OSCON 2007, May 23 2007
Open Source Platform Tools, May 02 2007
lolgeeks launched, April 30 2007
Books Like Blogs, April 29 2007
Six Basic Truths of Free APIs, April 27 2007
Open Source Groupware/Calendaring?, April 23 2007
Congrats to R0ml, Guido, Dave, and others,
From Walled Garden to Green Fields,
I Heart Moo,
Friends On The Move,
Survey: Three Most Important Open Source Projects,
Threads Considered Harmful,
Why Johnny Can't Program,
Being Delicious,
Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless?,
Twittervision and Twitter,
The Future of Web 2.0,
Open Source Trends,
Call For Open Source Awards 2007 Nominations,
Open Source: Imity and Sahana,
Yahoo! Open Source CMS Conference,

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