Dave Cross

http://twitter.com/davorg

London, Great Britain

Perl and database programmer, trainer and writer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Perl
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • Databases
  • Apache
  • SQL
  • XML
  • Movable Type
  • Javascript
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Dave Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd., a London-based Perl and Open Source Consultancy, and is also the author of the well-respected Data Munging with Perl and a co-author of Perl Template Toolkit.

Dave is active in the Perl community. He founded the London Perl Mongers in 1998 and for several years was the Perl Mongers International Group Co-Ordinator for the Perl Foundation. Dave is a regular speaker at Perl and Open Source conferences.

Original photo by acme

Perl Template Toolkit Perl Template Toolkit
by Andy Wardley , Darren Chamberlain , Dave Cross
December 2003
Print: $39.95
Ebook: $31.99

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Dave blogs at:
http://blog.dave.org.uk/

Week Notes 4 & 5

February 05 2012

One of the ideas behind writing these week notes was that it would force me to write at least one post a week. That doesn’t seem to have worked. So here’s a combined post for the last two weeks. Health It’s four weeks today since I broke my leg. The… read more

Week Notes 3

January 22 2012

Finally I actually managed to write a blog post that wasn’t week notes. That may well be my biggest achievement of the week. Health Still hobbling around in a cast and on crutches. Getting a bit better at it, but my upper body strength is still almost non-existent so I’m… read more

Nadine Dorries: Just Say No

January 20 2012

Today was the day that parliament had a rather long list of private members bills to debate. Originally there were sixty-four on the list. As this informative post from Kerry McCarthy tells us, they’d normally expect to get through about three of them. The MPs sponsoring the rest of the… read more

Week Notes 2

January 15 2012

When I said I was going to experiment with week notes on this blog, I didn’t intend that the blog would only consist of week notes. But as we’ll see below, other things have been taking my attention this week and I haven’t felt much like blogging. Hopefully normal service… read more

Week Notes

January 08 2012

A new experiment on the blog this year. I’m planning to write a weekly report on what I’ve been doing. No idea how useful or interesting it will be or how long I’ll feel like keeping it going. So here’s what I did this week. Speaking and Training Didn’t give… read more

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