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since 1997

about me

born in 1976
seen Tron in 1983 (yeah ... it facinated me)
member of a computer club in 1984 (BASIC programming on thomson MO5)
owned my first computer (Amstrad PC 15/12 with 20mo filecard) in 1986. Learnt pascal and C
first installation of slackware linux and internet access in 1995 (thanks to kewl and shadok). Changed my life
hired as ISP system operator in 1997 (also webmastering tasks)
kewl pointed me on perl in 1997. owned my first copy of the Camel Book the same year
hired as programmer and instructor (C, network, unix administration and programming) by metagenia in 2001. First contact with OO, metaprogramming, IA, ...
hired in 2003 as system engineer for University of Strasbourg to work on the Univ-RX project. Worked with NX, ldap, PAM/NSS, system performance tunning, HA, wrote tons of shell and perl scripts for system operations
Algorithm and C instructor for math/phy/chem students at University of Strasbourg since 2005
OSS developper for Biblibre since 2007

my vision of soft design

I believe in Mc Ilroy principles: the pipe is the best computer concept ever
vi is still my favorite editor.
i write the tests before the code
the best feature of a software is its documentation :)

oss ...

The big part of my oss contribution are actually fixes and minor improvements of existing projects (dh-make-perl, zsh, sqlite, Net::LDAP, CGI::Carp, Koha, ... ) and are mainly in perl and C. I tried many dynamic langages but always came back to perl5

i also wrote tons of scripts for personnal purposes or fun. most used ones are cpan2port and merisedot

I think that good acknowledge of the langage you're using is a requisite for a good design. that's why i love puzzles like anagram solving , or the euler project problems i'm solving in in C, go, haskell and perl6

my current interests are

parrot/rakudo design and developpement
functionnal programming (learning haskell)
semantic applications (including web)
reflexions on library systems and tools to make the MARC crap ends