Alex Balhatchet


I'm currently working as a software engineer for Nestoria, and loving it.

I'm a Perl hacker, so of course I have some CPAN modules.

I switched from Windows to Ubuntu Linux and I haven't looked back.

A lot of my code, including this website, is up on Github.

I play a lot of Magic: The Gathering with my friends.

You can find me on this Twitter thing everyone's talking about.

I currently live in North East London with my wonderful wife Dotti.

I work at Lokku with a bunch of really great people.

While at university I made some amazing friends.

Perl Projects

WebService::Nestoria::Search

A CPAN module for accessing the Nestoria public API.

You can find it on CPAN here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WebService-Nestoria-Search/.

Number::Format::SouthAsian

A module for formatting numbers in the South Asian style.

This was released to CPAN as part of my work on Nestoria India. In India the number one hundred thousand is written as "1,00,000" or "1 lakh."

You can find it on CPAN here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Number-Format-SouthAsian/.

App::highlight

A grep-like filter for highlighting words, which makes use of Perl's powerful regular expression engine.

This is one of many scripts I've written which makes use of Term::ANSIColor to make a simple but very useful script. It's maybe not as powerful or useful as App::Ack but it's still handy to have.

You can find it on CPAN here: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-highlight/.

Presentations

Introduction to Writing Readable and Maintainable Perl

Also known as: Perl Best Practices: The Best Bits. Presented at YAPC::EU 2011 in Rīga, Latvia

Viewable at slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/kaokun/introduction-to-writing-readable-and-maintainable-perl-yapceu-2011-version.

Authoring CPAN Modules

A talk I gave internally at Lokku in January 2011.

Covers PAUSE, CPAN, Git, Github, Dist::Zilla and CPAN Testers.

Viewable at slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/kaokun/authoring-cpan-modules.

Other

Modern Perl Book

I contributed to the Modern Perl Book which is available freely online. My name is in the credits and everything!

(Although my contributions were pretty small! ;-))

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