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 Pm (written just like that) is the nickname of Dr. Patrick Michaud. Dr. Michaud is a software developer and consultant focused on open source development and applications, including Perl, PmWiki, and Linux. Patrick is the current pumpking for the Perl 6 compiler. He is frequent presenter at several user groups in the Dallas - Fort Worth, USA, area. On the Internet, Patrick is best known as the author of PmWiki. PmWiki is an open source PmWiki/WikiWikiWeb system written in PHP and specifically designed to support web development. He is also known for his articles, Strawberry Pop-Tart Blowtorches and Fun With Grapes, which he wrote in the summer of 1994 to evaluate the web as a communications medium and which have been widely cited both on the web and in the popular press. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana-Lafayette). Patrick was formerly a Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the director of the Division of Nearshore Research at TAMU-CC. |