MDK

I have recently been persuaded by Matt S. Trout to join in with his Ironman competition and become an Iron Monger in the name of all things Perlish.
So here I am…
And now I am a Paper-Man (or Paper Person) and have this little badge to prove it:

(and so would everyone else if Matt had the Iron Munger code working but being the designer of these badges I have access to them)

But since I am here I should make a few notes. Firstly this is not the only blog I post to, this is my blog for the Perl world and its associated communities that I belong to. As the Managing Director of Shadowcat Systems I maintain a blog on the Shadowcat site and I consider that company blog to be eligible for Ironman as well as this one. I also have a blog at projectmonkey.vox.com which is a general set of writings that are not directly connected to work or the world of Perl I move in, but may occasionally have Perl related things.

So I did have an issue of which blog to link to the Ironman event…and then Matt solved it with his usual ease, there was either the idea of doing an aggregated site and using a feed to that (which neither of us really liked) or the method I will be employing which is to simply repeat any Ironman related posts from my Shadowcat Blog on this site so they are picked up by the Ironman EPO Planet.

So that about wraps this up for my very first post to be hopefully pulled by the Planet. I should note that if you want to join this wonderful competition there is now an online form so use it :).