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Ian Langworth

Biography

Ian specializes in broad knowledge of operating systems and programming languages and is a programmer for the Partner Solutions Organization at Google. He's contributed Perl modules to the CPAN, co-authored Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook, and spoken at Perl-related conferences such as LISA, YAPC and OSCON.

Ian left Northeastern University in Boston with a dual degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology. He currently resides in Mountain View, California, where he bicycles to work whenever he can.

Blog

On the Next Big Web Application Framework

July 29 2007

At OSCON I attended a handful of the sessions that were sessions were related to web application development. I’ve compiled a list of features I’d like to see in the next web application development framework: Give me continuations. Let my request handlers check whether the user has authenticated and, if… read more

...and managing up, too.

July 25 2007

Andy Lester is renown for his evangelism of technical debt awareness, and his talk at OSCON was full of rich lessons on improving your code and yourself. Managing upward is a theme in his talk, but it isn’t his primary focus. Andy wields upward management as a tool which can be… read more

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