Contributing Editor

Paul Barry

Paul has lectured since 1997 within the Department of Computing & Networking, at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, in Ireland. Prior to that, Paul worked for 10 years within the IT industry in various software development and managerial roles, both in Ireland and Canada.

Paul has a B.Sc. in Computing (Information Systems) from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown and an M.Sc. in Computing from the Institute of Technology, Sligo.

Paul has authored two books: Programming the Network with Perl (2002) and Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Perl (2004), which he co-wrote with Dr. Michael Moorhouse. Both books are published by Wiley.

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From the Magazine

September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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