Jouke's home

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This is the homepage of Jouke Visser. Perl fanatic. I'm a (freelance) programmer.

If you are looking for a Perl programmer for short-term assignments, you can hire me. At this moment, I'm happily employed at Bookings.org, so a fulltime position is not what I'm looking for. If you have a vacancy you're free to contact me, but it's unlikely I'll accept anything fulltime. This is the place where you can find my most up-to-date resume.

I'm the maintainer of the (GUI) Windows Programming FAQ. If you have any suggestions on what questions are missing, please mail me.

I created a page with information on Perl programming on Win32 platforms

The Amsterdam.pm CPAN leaderboard can be found here

Thanks to The Perl Foundation I'm able to go to the O'Reilly's Open Source Convention to talk about pVoice. Hopefully I will get other people interested in writing software for disabled people.
The slides of this presentation are now online at http://jouke.pvoice.org/oscon-2004/index.html

Photos

The four people who are the dearest to me in my life:

my girlfriend Mickey	my eldest daughter Krista	my son Tom	my youngest daughter Nikki

You can find more photographs in my album here!

Genealogy

One of my hobbies is genealogy. There are three pages so far with:

• Descendants of Sybren Yges (the eldest Visser I've found) from Pietersbierum.
• Descendants of Roelf Hindriks Vedder from Hoogezand
• Descendants of Hindrik Harms (the eldest Huisman I've found) from Middelbert
• My Pedigree chart (all of my ancestors)

What I do

The slides of the talk I gave at YAPC::Europe 2003 about Developing and Distributing Perl Applications for Microsoft Platforms are online now
The examples are available as a .zip file too!

I gave a tutorial at YAPC::Europe 2002 in Munich about "wxPerl". You can find the slides of this presentation here.

I currently have a few modules on CPAN: AAC::Pvoice, Audio::BASSXS, Win32::MSAgent, Win32::SoundRec, Win32::SAPI4, Wx::Metafile, and I've just taken over the maintenance of Games::Tetris from Richard Clamp.

I developed pVoice and pStory in 2001. Recently I released pVoice 2.1, which contains a lot of improvements over 2.0. For more information, visit the the pVoice site

I used to be the founder and -ehem- 'fearless leader' of the Rotterdam Perl Mongers. However, I recently moved to Haren (Gn), which is too far from Rotterdam to keep doing this (and we didn't get together in months, so it was practically dead anyway). If anyone is interested in picking it up again, just drop me a note.

In 2001 I was one of the organisers of YAPC::Europe in Amsterdam. I spoke there about pVoice and took quite a bit of pictures there.

Perl links

I set up a wxPerl Wiki The purpose is to get more coding examples and documentation for wxPerl online

At PerlMonks people who want to know more about Perl come together to chat and discuss various Perl-related topics. My personal homenode can be found here.

The use.perl.org site is the resource for Perl related news. A lot of people well known and less well known in the Perl community keep a journal there.