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Areas of expertise:

Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development
Sybase (table design, query optimization and stored proc development)
Java (including Reflection and Javascript embedding)

Areas of familiarity:

Web programming (EmbPerl, JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
C++
Shell scripting, *nix system administration

DVK questions

What is the most idiomatic way to emulating Perl's Test::More::done_testing?
How can I create the XML::Simple data structure using a Perl XML SAX parser?
Why doesn't substitution in list context return a list of captures?
How can I create a DIV that expands UP TO a height and then shows a scrollbar?
Why doesn't my SIGPIPE print the message?
Parsing Parquet files with Perl
What is a good CPAN parser for HTML MS Excel files?
Is there an API to disable/enable a Firefox extension?
When does Perl impose string context?
Why can't I call later-defined sub in BEGIN block even with forward declaration?

DVK answers

perl: executing multiple systems processes and waiting for them to finish
How to find people who bought one product but NOT another?
How can I match string order between two documents in Perl?
Is there a good reason why I shouldn't be mixing POST and GET parameters in a CGI query?
How to suppress arbitrary warn/error messages from DBI?
Capturing exit status from STDIN in Perl
How can I get all local extrema in Perl without rolling my own?
Guidelines for GUI design for a risk analysis app [closed]
perl invokes shell-- interrupt ^C stops the shell, not the perl
How to report a CPAN module bug