About the Author

Simon Cozens is an open source programmer and author. He has released over 100 Perl modules, including Email::Simple, Mail::Audit, Maypole, Plucene, and B::Generate. He's the coauthor of Beginning Perl (Wrox) and Extending and Embedding Perl (Manning) and was the managing editor of Perl.com from 2001 to 2004. A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in Japanese, he now lives in Wales and enjoys Japanese and Greek food, bizarre music, and fine typography.