Matisse Enzer

Here is a list of some things I am interested in. (Also available as an RSS feed.)

• Software engineering at Apple, Inc.
• Occasional blogging at twoalpha.blogspot.com
• Following my interests in better software development tools for Perl
• Building more Flexible Employee Benefits Enrollment Systems. Contact me if you are interested.
• Considering what kind of Super Hero I would be.
• Wondering what people think of my book: Unix for Mac OS X
  Originally published by Peachpit Press in December 2002, A revised "Tiger" version was published in 2005.

Some projects I build and/or led in the past year or two:

• Mortage Comparison Spreadsheet Generator
• Flexible Employee Benefits Enrollment System
• Make your own Greeting Cards online (uses your photos or nice artwork).

Other:
Got married. October, 2004.
My wife is a therapist who specializes in teens.

My work resume

Some current (January 2005) interests:

Love.

Need for Better Development Tools for Perl.

Scott Berkun's excellent book on The Art of Project Management

Refactoring Perl — adding more refactoring features for Perl, via EPIC

Black Rock City, Nevada

Burning Man

Developing software with Mozilla.

Photography I want to get back into doing this, now that the house and book projects are not eating all my time. I like black & white the best because it is easier to take a good black and white picture, and because I can easily do the printing myself (San Francisco runs an excellent public-access darkroom at the Harvey Milk Recreation Center on Scott & Duboce streets.) I'm years behind in printing though... have a big pile of contact sheets...

Misc. unedited digital images.

Developing cross-platform applications using XPFE (aka Mozilla)

Linux

And more generally, Open Source. Open Source is important for social and cultural reasons, besides being an important technical tool.

Some Perl Modules I have written

Mod_Perl

Java - what is it actually good for?

XML - what is it actually good for? (So far, I'd say defining data formats for complex data structures intended to be used by different organizations.)

Action Shooting

Grateful Dead

SCUBA diving -- I'm getting out of date Haven't gone since Sept. 1999

Some music I like

Bonnie Raitt: Fundamental

Sinead Lohan: No Mermaid

The Other Ones: The Strange Remain

Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Deadicated: A Tribute To The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume One

Susan Tedeschi: Just Won't Burn (and I just ordered Better Day's)

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume Five

Anoushka: Anoushka

10,000 Maniacs: MTV Unplugged

D'CuCKOO: D'CuCKOO

A few of my favorite movies:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Casablanca

To Have and Have Not

The Big Sleep

Alien & Aliens

The Man Who Would Be King

Babettes gæstebud (Babettes Feast)

Grosse Point Blank

Favorite TV stuff:

Star Trek

C-SPAN