About me

I have been a long term contributor to various open source Perl projects. The biggest project I started is Padre, the Perl IDE but I am also the maintainer of the CPAN::Forum and a few modules on CPAN.

At first this site was mostly about person stuff but later I have started to use it as a place to publish professional materials as well. So I have a blog now where I write about Test automation, Perl, Open Source and various other things that come to my mind.

In addition you'll be able to find information about the trainings I provide.

Aggregates

The following sites are aggregating my blog or part of it:

A few words about myself

I was born in 1967 in Budapest, Hungary. After successfully graduating from Fazekas, one of the more competitive high-schools in the country I though I can even learn Mathematics. It took two years to understand it is way too much for me so in 1989 I decided to make some adjustments. It involved moving to Israel, spending almost a year in Kibbutz Na'an learning Hebrew and then starting to learn Computer Sciences and Business Administration at the Hebrew University. I graduated in 1993 and then went on to do an MBA in the same place while working full time in various hi-tech companies.

A little jump here ... one day I'll have to fill in the white pages.

Since about 2000 I have been providing training classes and development services in Perl, in Test Automation and in some other open source technologies.
I am providing these classes both in Israel and overseas.
See my page about training.

I am also involved in the Perl community.

Professional

In the last couple of years I have been providing Perl training and development to various smaller and larger companies.

  • QA Test Automation
  • Configuration Management and Build automation
  • Web Application Development

If you happen to need such services, contact me so we can discuss the details.

Open Source Development

Throughout the years I have contributed to several Perl modules on CPAN, developed and maintaining the CPAN::Forum a community web forum and the Perl Community AdServer.
In addition I am the lead developer of Padre, the Perl IDE.

Social activity

I restarted the Israel.pm Perl Mongers and created a lively environment for local Perl enthusiastic in Israel. With the invaluable help of other Mongers I have organised several Perl and Open Source conferences in Israel. The community now has monthly meetings both in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem and a busy mailing list.

While the Hungarian Perl Mongers had a mailing list for some time already I have registered the perl.org.hu domain so we'll have a constant place to go when looking for Perl related information. Donated the hardware to run the web site and the mailing list and even organised with the great help of some other people two Perl Workshops in Budapest.

Mostly for my community work, in 2008, I received the White Camel Award.

Blog

Even before it was called a blog I used to write in the use Perl journal but nowdays I mostly post on my own blog.

Newsletter

On a regular basis I am sending out two newsletters. One called Test Automation Tips and the other called and Perl 6 Tricks and Treats.

Relationships

You can see my personal profile on LinkedIn

Other

I have setup and try to maintain the collection of Perl Training Companies in the world.

My favorite places in Budapest

Others about me

It's nice to see what other people write about me or if they take pictures of me, here are a few I found.

1st Hungarian Perl Workshop, 2002 (Budapest)
(participated as organizer and speaker)
Responses in Hungarian

YAPC::EU::2002 (Munich)
(participated as speaker)

YAPC::Israel::2003 (Haifa)
(participated as organizer and speaker)
perl.com article about Perl conferences
reflections
more feedback on the conference

YAPC::EU::2003 (Paris)
(participated as speaker)
picture 1 picture 2 about my talks

YAPC::Israel::2004 (Herzelya)
(participated as organizer and speaker)
picture 1 picture 2 small pictures perl.org.il responses

2nd Hungarian Perl Workshop, 2004 (Budapest)
Hungarian text + some pictures

YAPC::Israel::2005 (Herzelya)
YAPC::Israel::2005 (participated as organizer and speaker)

OSDC::Israel::2006 (Netanya)
OSDC::Israel::2006 (participated as organizer and speaker)

Israeli Perl Workshop 2007 (Ramat Efal)
Israeli Perl Workshop 2007 (participated as organizer and speaker)

About the design

You might notice this design is based on the Pasilda template by Adal Chiriliuc distributed through the Open Source Web Design community.

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