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Name: Kent Cowgill. Location: Chicago, IL USA.

I'm a software engineer and sometimes system administrator.

I've got a beautiful wife Lisa, a wonderful nearly 3 year old son named Matthew, a beautiful baby daughter named Nora, a nice comfortable house in Chicago, a little black terrier/poodle mix named Spike, and two cats named Shadow and Butterscotch (photos of all the above are available in abundance in my photoblog).

I've done software development for over 17 years - most of them using Perl. I took a break for a while from development and turned my attention towards being a system administrator. Blame the dot-com boom - and I was in the right place at the right time. I never quite got development out of my blood - if I wasn't writing complex server monitoring and reporting systems, I would instead focus on learning some of the inner workings of Perl.

This site pulls together some of my interests - development, photography, and most recently fitness, and acts as a playground for new technologies. Stay tuned :)

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Matthew typing on Daddy's computer

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Tuesday, September 15 2009, 2:27pm

I'm currently working with a lot of legacy code in an environment where the other developers haven't been brought up to speed on things like Moose just yet. I've been tasked with writing some modules in support of this legacy code on a legacy platform - so Moose probably isn't the first choice of tools to reach for.

The module I created is a lightweight wrapper around PDF::API2 that handles a very specific case - adding an image to an existing PDF file. Naturally, Moose is installed on my laptop, so after creating a recent ...