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{{sic|'''brian d foy'''}}<ref name="format">{{cite web| last = d foy| first = brian|
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title = brian d foy style guide| work = www252.pair.com/comdog| url = http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html| access-date = 2008-04-15}}</ref> is the former publisher and editor of ''The Perl Review'', a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including '']'', '']'' and '']''. He is also the founder of ], the founder of the White Camel Awards,<ref name="whitecamels">{{cite web| title = White Camel Awards: 2004 recipients| url = http://www.perl.org/advocacy/white_camel/2004.html| access-date = 2010-08-11}}</ref> a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC (]). He is the author of multiple Perl modules on ] and maintains the ''perlfaq'' portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.<ref name="oreilly">{{cite web| title = brian d foy| url = http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/1071| access-date = 2011-01-18}}</ref><ref name="perlcom-interview">{{cite web| title = People Behind Perl: brian d foy| author = chromatic| work = perl.com | date = 2005| url = http://www.perl.com/pub/2005/04/28/bdfoy.html| access-date = 2011-08-13}}</ref>
'''brian d foy'''<ref name="format">{{cite web| last = foy| first = brian d|

title = brian d foy style guide| work = www252.pair.com/comdog| url = http://www252.pair.com/comdog/style.html| accessdate = 2008-04-15}}</ref> is the publisher and editor of ''The Perl Review'', a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including ''Learning Perl'' and ''Intermediate Perl''. He was also the founder of ], the founder of the White Camel Awards,<ref name="whitecamels">{{cite web| title = White Camel Awards: 2004 recipients| url = http://www.perl.org/advocacy/white_camel/2004.html| accessdate = 2010-08-11}}</ref> a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC (]) and a veteran of the ].<ref name="veteran">{{cite web| last = Gilmore| first = Jason| title = Five Questions for brian d foy| work = ablog.apress.com| url = http://blogs.apress.com/?p=440| accessdate = 2008-04-15}}{{Dead link|date=August 2011}}</ref> He is the author of multiple Perl modules on ] and maintains the ''perlfaq'' portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.<ref name="oreilly">{{cite web| title = brian d foy| url = http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/1071| accessdate = 2011-01-18}}</ref><ref name="perlcom-interview">{{cite web| title = People Behind Perl: brian d foy| author = chromatic| work = perl.com | date = 2005| url = http://www.perl.com/pub/2005/04/28/bdfoy.html| accessdate = 2011-08-13}}</ref>
== PerlPowerTools ==
In 2014 he revitalized the ''PerlPowerTools'' AKA ''PPT'' project.<ref name="PPT">{{cite web| title = PerlPowerTools| url = http://PerlPowerTools.com| access-date = 2015-05-05}}</ref>
In February 1999, ] announced the PerlPowerTools project to provide a unified BSD toolbox,
i.e. a reimplementation of the classic Unix command set in pure Perl.
Perl is the same (mostly) everywhere you go and the same programs could run the same everywhere instead of being reimplemented for each platform.


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==
* '']'', ISBN 0-596-10105-8 (fourth edition, 2005) * '']'', {{ISBN|0-596-10105-8}} (fourth edition, 2005)
* ''Learning Perl'', ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 (fifth edition, 2008) * ''Learning Perl'', {{ISBN|978-0-596-52010-6}} (fifth edition, 2008)
* ''Learning Perl'', ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 (sixth edition, 2011) * ''Learning Perl'', {{ISBN|978-1-44930-358-7}} (sixth edition, 2011)
* ''Student Workbook for Learning Perl'', ISBN 0-596-00996-8 (2005) * ''Learning Perl'', {{ISBN|978-1-49195-432-4}} (seventh edition, 2016)
* ''Learning Perl Student Workbook'', ISBN 1-4493-2806-7 (second edition, 2012) * ''Learning Perl'', {{ISBN|978-1-49209-495-1}} (eighth edition, 2021)
* '']'', ISBN 0-596-10206-2 (2006) * ''Student Workbook for Learning Perl'', {{ISBN|0-596-00996-8}} (2005)
* ''Intermediate Perl'', ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 (second edition, 2012) * ''Learning Perl Student Workbook'', {{ISBN|1-4493-2806-7}} (second edition, 2012)
* '']'', ISBN 978-0-596-52724-2 (2007) * '']'', {{ISBN|0-596-10206-2}} (2006)
* ''Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl'', ISBN 978-0-321-49694-2 (second edition, 2010) * ''Intermediate Perl'', {{ISBN|978-1-4493-9309-0}} (second edition, 2012)
* '']'', ISBN 0-596-00492-3 (fourth edition, 2011) * ''Mastering Perl'', {{ISBN|978-0-596-52724-2}} (2007)
* ''Mastering Perl'', {{ISBN|978-1-44939-311-3}} (second edition, 2014)
* ''Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl'', {{ISBN|978-0-321-49694-2}} (second edition, 2010)
* '']'', {{ISBN|0-596-00492-3}} (fourth edition, 2011)
* ''Learning Perl 6'', {{ISBN|1-49197-768-X}} (2018)


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American computer programmer For the film producer and director, see Bryan Foy.

brian d foy
brian d foy in 2008
BornUnited States
Occupation(s)Author, computer programmer

brian d foy [sic] is the former publisher and editor of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl and Mastering Perl. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference). He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN and maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.

PerlPowerTools

In 2014 he revitalized the PerlPowerTools AKA PPT project. In February 1999, Tom Christiansen announced the PerlPowerTools project to provide a unified BSD toolbox, i.e. a reimplementation of the classic Unix command set in pure Perl. Perl is the same (mostly) everywhere you go and the same programs could run the same everywhere instead of being reimplemented for each platform.

Bibliography

References

  1. d foy, brian. "brian d foy style guide". www252.pair.com/comdog. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
  2. "White Camel Awards: 2004 recipients". Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  3. "brian d foy". Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  4. chromatic (2005). "People Behind Perl: brian d foy". perl.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  5. "PerlPowerTools". Retrieved 5 May 2015.

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