David Rolsky

David Rolsky
Born	David J. Rolsky 1973 Philadelphia
Residence	Minneapolis
Other names	Dave Rolsky
Alma mater	Bard College, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Occupation	Programmer, author,
Website
http://www.houseabsolute.com/

David J. Rolsky (born December 6, 1973) is an American author, computer programmer, and pro-animal activist. He is active in the Perl programming community,^[1] and has made many contributions to the Moose OO framework for Perl.^[2] He has co-written two Perl-related books published by O'Reilly & Associates: Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason^[3] and RT Essentials.^[4] In 1998 he co-founded Compassionate Action for Animals, a nonprofit group whose stated goal is to reduce the suffering of farmed animals.^[5]

Rolsky is a frequent speaker at events related to the Perl programming language, including YAPC::NA 2011,^[6] YAPC::Europe 2010,^[7] Italian Perl Workshop 2009,^[8] and the Frozen Perl conference series.^[9] In 2008 Rolsky was featured in Code-a-thon Decoded,^[10] a television program about Perl and the free software movement that aired on Current TV.

References

1. ^ http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/
2. ^ http://www.perlfoundation.org/dave_rolsky_moose_docs
3. ^ http://www.masonbook.com/
4. ^ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006686
5. ^ http://www.exploreveg.org/do/board.html
6. ^ http://yapc2011.us/yn2011user/1679
7. ^ http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/user/1679
8. ^ http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ipw2009/user/1679
9. ^ http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2011/user/1679
10. ^ http://current.com/technology/89141442_code-a-thon-decoded.htm

External links

• Dave Rolsky's modules on CPAN

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Name	Rolsky, David
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Date of birth	December 6, 1973
Place of birth	Philadelphia
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