Nationality British Role Author Occupation Author, programmer Known for Perl | Awards White Camel Award Name Dave Cross | |
Born 7 September 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-09-07 ) Books Perl Template Toolkit, Data Munging with Perl | ||
Perfecting Selections in Adobe Photoshop CC (with Dave Cross) | Official trailer
For the English-American stand up comedian see David Cross
Contents
- Perfecting Selections in Adobe Photoshop CC with Dave Cross Official trailer
- Technical author
- Work in the Perl community
- Personal
- References
David "Dave" Cross (born 7 September 1962) is a British technical author, known in the Perl community for his work with Perl Mongers.
Technical author
In 2001 Manning Press published Dave Cross's first book Data Munging With Perl.
Dave followed this up in 2003 by co-authoring with Andy Wardley and Darren Chamberlain Perl Template Toolkit, published by O'Reilly Associates.
Work in the Perl community
Dave Cross founded London Perl Mongers, the first Perl user group outside North America.
Since then Dave Cross has become a regular speaker at Perl conferences and other open source conferences such as UKUUG and FOSDEM.
In 2004 Dave Cross was presented with the O'Reilly White Camel award for his work in the Perl community.
Personal
In addition to his technical writings Dave Cross currently maintains a personal blog on which he covers issues such as politics and religion — in particular, he is a strong atheist.