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Smylers recently persuaded his employer, WebFusion, to invent a position for him, so he is now their Hosting Analyst ‒ a job title so vague he pretty much gets to make it up as he goes along. Before that he was a Perl hacker for them for several years (for most of which they were known as Pipex Hosting), mainly working on their Ubuntu dedicated servers products.
Previously he was Head of Perl Training at GBdirect, where he taught Perl to Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sony, and the Nationwide building society among others, and was the lead developer for top UK IT news website ‘The Register’.
Smylers has been giving talks on Vim, Linux, and Perl since 1999. His talk ‘How to Speak at Perl Conferences’ was well received by both Damian Conway (“I was hoping to learn something, and I did”) and Mark Jason Dominus (“I expected to hate it, but I didn't”).
He lives in a very nice apartment in the centre of Leeds ‒ so nice, in fact, that the council are going to knock it down next year. |
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