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<p>Q and A with the guy known to some as "Asim":</p>
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<dd>Who _are_ you, and what are you doing on PerlMonks, anyway?</dd>
<dl>Um, that's <em>two</em> questions...but we'll let it slide. This time.<br/>I'm Woodrow Jarvis Hill, struggling programmer, boring person, troublemaker, and tediously overly-hobbied "shadow of someone else's dream". I'm on Perlmonks for the cookies, of course. :)</dl>
<dd>What's the deal with the nick, "Asim"? Are you, indeed, Islamic? Black Muslim?</dd>
<dl>Nope, neither. The nick is my dance name -- I'm likely the only [href://http://www.flickr.com/photos/asim/28374208/in/set-643421/|Belly Dancing Perl Programmer] in the world!<super>1</super> It's also my SCA name, as I'm a long-standing member of the [href://http://www.sca.org/|Society of Creative Anachronism] -- yes, those wackos in the park, hitting each other with sticks while wearing funny clothing. Although I'm not so much into the hitting part.</dl>
<dd>So what about coding? What do you do there?</dd>
<dl>Right now, I code internally for a major financial institution. I do both front-and-backend design work, from cradle to grave. Sometimes it's a short one-off script, sometimes a major tracking or data-collection system. It's a fun job, with a lot of variety.<br /> Best of all, they tend to take a "whatever works for you" approach; you get to implement in whatever language and toolsets will do the job, so long as you can support it. So I naturally do a lot of work in Perl, although I can, and have, also worked in the ASP.NET environment with both C# and ASP.NET, Java, and even [href://http://groovy.codehaus.org/|Groovy].</dl>
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</dt><p>(More to come....)</p>
<p><super>1</super> [href://http://www.perlgurl.net/|WRONG] She even lives fairly near me, and we have dance friends in common, although (to my knowledge) we've never met...</p>
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