PERSON
Jim Brandt
Jim Brandt
- Jim Brandt (CPAN ID:
CBRANDT) is a software engineering leader, longtime president of The Perl Foundation, Director of Product and Engineering at Best Practical Solutions (makers of Request Tracker /RT), and co-author of mod_perl 2 User's Guide. Connection to My Work
- In the 2000s, while Jim led Administrative Computing Services at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, he brought me in repeatedly for Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Perl training and architecture consulting (famously meeting me "at the dumpsters at 8:00 AM" from my nearby Motel 6).
- It was during my work with Jim and his team at the University at Buffalo in 2004 that I conceived and built
CGI::Prototype(because I wanted a pluggable CGI handler and hatedCGI::Application), forwarding theCGI-Prototype-0.90.tar.gzCPAN upload notice directly to Jim on December 1, 2004. See My CPAN Distributions as MERLYN: File::Finder, CGI::Prototype, sh2perl, and Acme::Current and From Aztec Ruins to Buffalo Snowstorms. - On February 21, 2018, I hosted Jim as my featured guest on FLOSS Weekly (Episode 472) to discuss The Perl Foundation and Request Tracker.
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