Ruth Holloway

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Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl developer and project lead at Clearbuilt. You can find out more about Ruth's passions and career at her site. She's a mother, grandmother, wife, artist, public speaker, and mommy to the cutest little dog you'll ever meet.

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The must-have features for Perl 6

Perl 6 came out in general release around Christmas 2015, and since then I've heard a lot of questions about it, both from people in and out of the Perl community. Jeff Goff…

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What's holding your conference back

In 2006, the United Nations passed the Convention on the Rights of the Disabled. Now signed by over 160 countries, the Convention calls for disabled persons to be able to live…

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druthb
An introduction to the Web::Simple Perl module, a minimalist web framework

You're welcome! Look for more stuff like this in coming articles; I've got other great Perl-beginner articles and Perl module articles lined up!

druthb
Essential open source software for running your small business

Great article, Scott, and timely for me--I have a small-biz, and need a couple of better solutions!