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• Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
  Hi Gabor, Greetings from India!! Thank you very much for your concern. Its heartening to see that someone of your stature is interested in getting more Indians on to Perl. I don't hail from a programming background, but here are...
• Commented on Sometimes a good talk is enough to motivate
  Hi Eric, Thanks a lot for the link. Its a very good talk....
• Commented on A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.
  Hi Brad, Thanks for the suggestion. However, running the commands as shown possible only if the system from which the perl script is being run is directly talking to the storage array. This script doesn't require that it be run...
• Commented on My First Post.
  Hi Olivier and Ron, Thank you very much for your encouraging words. Ron and Olivier, your humbleness is amazing. That's not "a few" modules sire, those are a LOT of modules that you have written. Looks like I am the...
• Commented on A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.
  Hi Olivier, Thank you for the suggestion. I have used the tags now....
• Posted A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices. to perl514

  A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.
  
  

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• Commented on My First Post.
  Hi David, Thank you very much for your encouraging words. I am not sure if I will be able to achieve the kind of skill level of developing a module and stuff on those lines, but may be with time...
• Posted Script to convert HBA WWNs to lowercase and add ":" to perl514

  I hope that SAN Admins find this helpful.

  Whenever HBA WWNs are entered in Cisco SAN Switches on the command line prompt, A colon (:) character needs to be added at every second position in the

• Posted My First Post. to perl514

  Hi, I am a Storage Administrator. I was on a lookout for a scripting language that would help me automate some of the work that I do. Started learning Perl, but it was ( and still is) a sort of intermittent process. Work load has a tendency to mount when you least expect and I end up not…

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• brian d foy commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  There are also many Indians applying to the Advanced Perl Group on LinkedIn, but I have no way to evaluate them and they apparently don't connect with anyone already in the group. I'd like to find ways to extend our network of trust into India.

• Kiran commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  Here is some data[1] from perl.com sometime back.
  I came back to India from the US last year and am working on my own startup and we are a perl shop in bangalore, we are a five member team and Looking for perl programmers to join our team.

  I have been attending a few tech meetups and conferences in bangalore and have interviewed a lot of candidates for my company and in the end I decided to hire programmers who did not know perl and train them since I could not find any one who knew something beyond baby perl.

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• Ether commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  I wonder if anyone is interested in applying for a TPF grant to attend some big conferences in India and evangelize for Perl? It would be great if we could increase the Indian representation (even get a speaker or two?) at the next YAPC::Asia.

• Steven Haryanto commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  If someone is considering India, he/she might as well consider China, Philippines, and Indonesia (or Malaysia and Thailand to a lesser extent).

  As someone who stays in Indonesia, I can say that there is a great deal of energy and interest for open source here, but Perl's presence is almost non-existent. There's a lot of opportunity.

• superpulse.x commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  I mostly agree with @kiran on the situation with Perl in India. I feel that its important to find ways for developers in India to be more social and get them to contribute