Education
Bard College; University of Minnesota.
Bard College; University of Minnesota.
He is active in the Perl programming community, and has made many contributions to the Moose OO framework for Perl. He has co-written two Perl-related books published by O"Reilly & Associates: Embedding Perl in HyperText Markup Language with Mason and Reality Therapy Essentials. In 1998 he co-founded Compassionate Action for Animals, a nonprofit group whose stated goal is to reduce the suffering of farmed animals.
Rolsky is a frequent speaker at events related to the Perl programming language, including YAPC::NA 2011, YAPC::Europe 2010, Italian Perl Workshop 2009, and the Frozen Perl conference series.
In 2008 Rolsky was featured in Code-a-thon Decoded, a television program about Perl and the free software movement that aired on Current television