My name is Barry Walsh. I'm a freelance IT consultant from London, UK. [more]
This blog is mostly about Perl programming because this is what I use and love (and occasionally hate!) for the majority of my working (and sometimes non-working) day.
Occasionally I will touch on other subjects like PostgreSQL, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Ruby, jQuery, Javascript, XML and many more techie things that I also play with regularly. Other non techie aspects of my life may slip in now and again but I'll try and keep that to a minimum because its normally boring anyway :)
Use this category selection to show just the non boring bits!
RT @LeapJosh: Inhabiting a tentacle monster to write text documents will expose you to new perspectives that might feel strange or even thr… 2 months ago
RT @Forensic_Stats: Yes, vaccines are safe and effective.
But if we are looking at mid-40% VE against infection, and ~90% VE against sever… 11 months ago