brian d foy, 2000
Writers · January 1, 2000
brian d foy
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brian d foy is 26 years old, born January 1, 2000 in United States · Capricorn.
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About
brian d foy shaped Perl programming culture as publisher, educator, and infrastructure builder. Born in 2000, he edited The Perl Review, co-authored core learning texts like Learning Perl and Mastering Perl, and founded Perl Mongers to unite the language's community. A Capricorn born on the cusp of the new millennium, foy spent decades establishing publishing and conference standards that defined how programmers learn and connect.
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Biography
brian d foy (lowercase stylization deliberate) is a US-born writer and computer programmer whose career centered on making Perl—a systems programming language—legible and communal. He served as publisher and editor of The Perl Review, a magazine dedicated entirely to Perl, and wrote or co-wrote foundational textbooks: Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, and Mastering Perl. Beyond publishing, foy built infrastructure: he founded Perl Mongers, the grassroots organizer of local programming groups, and created the White Camel Awards to recognize community contributions. He authored multiple modules for CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) and maintains the perlfaq documentation that ships with Perl itself. From 1998 to 2009, he was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services, a Perl-focused firm. As a Capricorn, foy's career reflects the sign's association with systems-building and long-term institutional work; his life-path number four aligns with that same methodical, foundational energy. Writers typically research, document, and communicate across formats—books, magazines, code documentation—roles foy has embodied across Perl's ecosystem. A US citizen whose public work has been entirely within open-source and tech publishing, foy remains largely outside mainstream recognition despite his outsized influence on how Perl programmers learn and organize.
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Trivia
- foy stylizes his name in lowercase, a personal branding choice reflected in all official contexts.
- He founded the White Camel Awards, Perl's equivalent to lifetime achievement recognitions, and was a frequent keynote speaker at The Perl Conference and YAPC.
- Beyond publishing, foy maintains perlfaq—the Frequently Asked Questions documentation—within Perl's core codebase, making him a steward of the language's official knowledge base.
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Numerology
LIFE-PATH NUMBER
The Builder
Disciplined and structured. brian d foy succeed where consistency beats charisma — long catalogs, repeatable craft, slow-grow audiences.
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Birthday compatibility
By Chinese zodiac — san-he trine for best matches, opposing pair for the most friction-prone.
HIGHLY COMPATIBLE
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- IsaacMonkey · 2004
- Yung GravyRat · 1996
- Robbie UreMonkey · 2004
CHALLENGING
- Alexander GouldDog · 1994
- Jean-Carl Boucher
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Frequently asked
- How old is brian d foy?
- brian d foy is 26 years old (born January 1, 2000).
- When is brian d foy's birthday?
- brian d foy was born on January 1, 2000.
- What is brian d foy's zodiac sign?
- brian d foy is a Capricorn, born January 1, 2000.
- What is brian d foy's Chinese zodiac sign?
- brian d foy was born in 2000, the year of the Metal Dragon.
- Where is brian d foy from?
- brian d foy is from United States.
- What does brian d foy do?
- brian d foy is a writer.
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