I've used Perl since 1998. In that time, I've done more things than I can remember. You can see some striations of history in my CPAN directory as well as in my Github repository.
I've written copiously about Perl since 2000, and was the second public user of the PerlMonks website, though I am no longer active there.
My most current Perl writing exists on Modern Perl Books, though the site is currently on hiatus.
February 2009 - present
The book Modern Perl and website Modern Perl Books track what some people refer to as the "Perl Renaissance" or "Perl Enlightenment", where we seek to take advantage of the strengths of the language and the community and use our experience to improve the way we write software.
The CPAN module Modern::Perl offers a complementary opinion.
September 2001 - 2012
I have contributed several patches to the Perl 5 language. Many of them
were tests for core libraries in the Perl 5.8.0 period. Several of them
have been improvements to core documentation. I was responsible for a
couple of features, including the "..." operator and
UNIVERSAL::DOES
. I have fixed a few bugs.
September 2003 - January 2009, May 2011 - February 2014
As editor of Perl.com, my duty was to solicit, edit, and publish articles that show off the use of Perl as a language, tool, and component of a vibrant community. In particular, the focus of the site has changed to include an evangelism component to show off the best way to write effective Perl in the 21st century.
When Perl.com transferred to the Perl Foundation in early 2011, my responsibilities included the revenue model of the site. Since that time, Perl.com has made a modest profit every month.
I voluntarily resigned from this position in early 2014.
August 2001
I was there at the start of the Perl Testing Revolution. In fact, I created Test::Builder by extracting and unifying common pieces of Test::Simple and Test::More. Test::Builder has been one of the foci of testing in Perl since its inception.
If you search the CPAN for modules in the Test::
namespace, you'll find hundreds of results.
They work together because of Test::Builder
.
September 2001 - January 2011
In my time as a lead developer of the Parrot virtual machine, project, I contributed to almost every part of the system with code, documentation, design, and tests. In particular, my efforts focused on finding and fixing memory leaks and finding and implementing optimizations from the language level to the core of the VM. For every source file in Parrot, there was a decent chance I fixed a bug in it and a very good chance I read every line.
Goodnight, Parrot explains why I stopped contributing. If you need a language virtual machine or runtime for serious work, look elsewhere.
January 2003 - January 2011
I ceased my participation in Perl 6 and Parrot in early 2011 and have neither plans nor desire to use Perl 6.