Randal L. Schwartz
General Manager, Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

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Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl and Smalltalk programming languages, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz runs a Perl and Smalltalk training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. And he’s a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.

Books authored/coauthored:

• Programming Perl (multiple editions)
• Learning Perl (multiple editions)
• Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
• Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions)
• Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl
• Object Oriented Perl
• Randal Schwartz’s Perls of Wisdom

Magazine articles and columns:

• UnixReview Magazine
• PerformanceComputing Magazine
• SysAdmin Magazine and Website
• WebTechniques Magazine and Website
• Linux Magazine and Website
• The Perl Journal E-Magazine
• Apple Developer Works Website

Regular contributor to online forums:

• The Perl Monastery
• Use Perl
• newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc et. seq.
• newsgroup comp.lang.perl.announce (moderator since inception)
• perl.org mailing lists
• Perl mailing lists on Yahoo! Groups
• various Smalltalk and Squeak mailing lists

Podcast producer:

• FLOSS Weekly
• Insight Cruises News-es
• segment producer for Squeak news for Industry Misinterpretations (Smalltalk podcast)
• segment producer for Perl news
• Occasional co-host on MacBreakWeekly and This Week in Tech