Today I would like to announce that Robert Shiplett is second Curler (aka Curlr) to receive the Curl MVP award. Robert is a lead developer at Paisley working full-time as a Curl developer on their Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) product.
Robert is a programming language aficionado who has, in addition to Curl, worked in Smalltalk, Prolog, APL, and C. He is also a fan of other programming languages including Rebol, SNOBOL, UNICON, IO, and Oz. Robert Shiplett, whose first love is Prolog, professes that he is not a Curl zealot, but a Curl fan. That’s high praise coming from a developer who has learned to use so many programming languages.
In his own words Robert told me:
“… as an expression-based language suited to managing content in web applications, it is difficult to rival Curl - especially for Web-based training. And difficult to rival as an IDE (my other favorite languages have no such IDE ).”
Although Robert spends some of his off time scribbling code in SNOBOL 4 on paper at the dinning room table he also interested in the electric guitar (he has 2 of them), telescopes (he has 13 of those), PC flight simulators (he has all of them), R/C planes, languages (French & German), foreign films, poetry, and playing GO, Chess, and Scrabble.
We are excited to add Robert to the small but growing ranks of MVPs, a status which is very well deserved for what has been a great deal of evangelizing on his part. You will see Robert posting often on the developers center - don’t hesitate to congratulation him! You can read more about Robert’s thoughts on Curl and other topics at his blog “eclectic pencil”.
Congratulations Robert!
About the Curl MVP program:
Throughout the year a few exceptional Curl community members will be awarded MVP status. This is in recognition of those individuals who have made substantial contributions to the Curl community and deserve to be recognized for those efforts.
The first MVP award was given to Friedger Müffke which you can read about here.
The advantages of being an MVP are many-fold including recognition, elevated status in the community, promotion by Curl, instant beta access, and MVP Board membership. The MVP Board will consult with Curl on a semi-annual basis and have influence on Curl's product direction in the future. MVPs represent a critical feedback channel to the community. It’s at the MVP Board meetings that MVPs also will consider nominations for other MVPs and vote to give those awards to deserving community members.
A Curl MVP is someone who has worked hard in the community to help others, spread the word about Curl through speaking, books and articles, and has contributed to the health and vitality of our community. When the award is given it should be of no surprise to the rest of us – MVPs stand out.
The Curl MVP award is recognition of an individual for having furthered Curl as a platform for Rich Internet Applications. In nearly all cases MVPs have given up their free time to help other community members succeed, which is the very foundation on which our community must be built; helping others to succeed with Curl.
