Barrie Slaymaker is the founder and principal of Slaymaker Systems, Inc., an independent consulting firm that offers systems design and implementation services, and that specializes in networked, distributed systems. He is a regular participant in the mod_perl Garden Project -- an open source community dedicated to developing and evangelizing mod_perl -- and he has contributed to CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). His contributions to CPAN include Eesh.pm, a repackaging of File::Spec from the standard distribution for backwards compatibility, and Regexp::Shellish. He is currently writing Safari, a Web front-end for browsing revision control systems and other hierarchical data stores.