- First name
- H.Merijn
- Last name
- Brand
- Nickname
- Tux
- Country
- the Netherlands
- City
- Huizen
- Birth year
- 1961
- Company
- Procura
- Web site
- http://tux.nl/
- PAUSE ID
- HMBRAND
- Monk ID
- 200365
- GitHub
- Tux
- PM group
- Amsterdam.pm , perl6.pm
- Perl versions
- ðªâPerl 4, ðªâPerl 5, ðŠâPerl 6
- Bio
- I am an analyst/programmer since 1988 working for Procura in Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands.
I am specialized in data-analysis and -conversion, mainly with databases and data-connections as focus area.
Many know me for my work on the CSV data format with Perl. I wrote a fast, versatile and flexible CSV parser for Perl 5 and ported that to Perl 6.
In my daily work, I mainly use the Perl and C programming languages. My desktop is Linux (OpenSUSE with Plasma 5) on my workstations and my laptop. Next to Linux my daily work is also concentrated on commercial OS's like HP-UX.
On the internet I am widely known as "Tux".
My personal preferences can be viewed on http://tux.nl.
Talks submitted by H.Merijn Brand
Using GeoIP to monitor break-in attempts â 20 minutes; accepted â August 9 (Fri), Room %, 12:30
Access to sites or applications that are (very) region specific, like elections, might well want to block regions that try to break-in and/or corrupt the data. When a firewall or similar monitor reports break-in attempts, it might be useful to see the region the attempt comes from.