Danny Brian has been programming for over 20 years. Since the advent of Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, his major development interests have been natural language processing, games, and XML technologies. Danny has been a regular speaker at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention since in 2001, winning the Damian Conway award for Technical Excellence in 2001. Formerly a columnist for "The Perl Journal", he has recently worked as an analyst and software engineer for NTT/Verio, and today is the CEO of an entertainment startup.