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My day job  

My publications list should give you a good idea of what I do for a living.

Institute for Aerospace Research Awards:

Mar., 2005 - Achievement Award to recognize my

"...contribution for the undertaking of a complex series of dynamic wind tunnel tests under tight timelines to investigate the stability of the cable trays on the NASA space shuttle external tank"

Feb., 2001 - Certificate of Team Achievement for

"...completion of the Aurora Service Life Assessment Project"

Mar., 1999 - Technical Innovation Award for

"Web Based Technology Applied to 2m x3m Wind Tunnel System"

Email about my day job should go to: Stephen.Jenkins@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

My former night job  

I was a part-time instructor for the School of Advanced Technology at Algonquin College
If you're interested in what I was teaching: Course information

Fun with Perl  

I created a one-page regular expression quick reference that beginners may find useful

I was on the organizing committee for yapc::Canada::2003 and also gave a two hour tutorial: Introduction to Regular Expressions

• My home node
• camel code - my best known obfuscated Perl program
  • if you liked the code, you'll love the T-shirt
  • after getting my permission, the Perl Mongers group of West Java, Indonesia, used my code on their shirts.
    I received one from them on 2001-09-11, an otherwise awful day.
• Some of my other obfuscations:
  • how to (ab)use substr - my personal favourite
  • how to (ab)use map
  • find-a-func
  • there can be only one
• The Doom of the Noldor - the only Perl poem I've written
  • ... but it did win The Second Annual Perl Poetry Contest run in The Perl Journal, Issue #20.

Bookish things

I contributed to:

Perl Hacks by chromatic, Damian Conway, and Curtis "Ovid" Poe

I was a technical reviewer for:

	Essential Electronics for Software Folk by Caleb Tennis
	Practices of an Agile Developer by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
	Intermediate Perl by Randal Schwartz, brian d foy & Tom Phoenix
	Learning Perl, 4th Edition by Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, & brian d foy
	Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell.
	Perl Graphics Programming by Shawn Wallace

Other geeky stuff

I served on the 2002 Editors' Choice Awards Board of Linux Journal.

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