Blosxom

I am a maintainer of blosxom, a simple, extensible blogging platform. In addition to contributing to the core application, I have written a couple of plugins:

• potd — Displays a picture of the day
• readinglist — Manages lists of current, completed, and pending reading
• writeback_akismet — A modified version of the writeback plugin which uses Akismet for spam checking

I also wrote a spam-checking script which can be used to clean up an existing blosxom comment database, or to false negatives that got through the Askimet check in the writeback_akismet or feedback plugins.

Presentations

• Beautiful Concurrency with Erlang — presented at OSCON 2008
• “Effortless Concurrency with Erlang” — A talk to the Portland Functional Programming Study Group given in Feb 2008
• POE vs. Erlang — An introduction to Erlang and comparison with the POE framework in Perl, given to Portland Perl Mongers, Dec 2007
• “How to Serve a Billion Requests a Day with Perl” — Talk given at OSCON and YAPC::NA, 2005