Dave Cross
For the English-American stand up comedian see David Cross
| Dave Cross | |
|---|---|
 Dave Cross at UKUUG.jpg | |
| Born | David Cross 7 September 1962 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Perl programming |
| 🌐 Website | http://dave.org.uk/ |
David "Dave" Cross (born 7 September 1962) is a British technical author, known in the Perl community for his work with Perl Mongers.
Technical author[edit]
In 2001 Manning Press published Dave Cross's first book Data Munging With Perl.
Dave followed this up in 2003 by co-authoring with Andy Wardley and Darren Chamberlain Perl Template Toolkit, published by O'Reilly Associates.
Work in the Perl community[edit]
Dave Cross founded London Perl Mongers, the first Perl user group outside North America.
Since then Dave Cross has become a regular speaker at Perl conferences[1][2][3][4][5] and other open source conferences such as UKUUG[6] and FOSDEM.[7]
In 2004 Dave Cross was presented with the O'Reilly White Camel award for his work in the Perl community.[8]
Personal[edit]
In addition to his technical writings Dave Cross currently maintains a personal blog on which he covers issues such as politics and religion — in particular, he is a strong atheist.[9]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Participant information: Dave Cross, YAPC::Europe 2008
- ↑ Participant information: Dave Cross, YAPC::Europe 2003
- ↑ Participant information: Dave Cross, Belgian Perl Workshop 2007
- ↑ Participant information: Dave Cross, London Perl Workshop 2008
- ↑ Speaker biographies, YAPC::Europe 2001
- ↑ Talk abstracts, UKUUG Spring 2008
- ↑ Dave Cross: an interview, FOSDEM, 26 January 2004
- ↑ White Camel Awards: 2004 Recipients, www.perl.org
- ↑ Non-Magic Bus, Dave Cross, 21 October 2008
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