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Jesse Vincent

For another person, see Jesse G. Vincent.
Vincent in 2010

Jesse Vincent (born June 21, 1976) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his work with the Perl programming language. He created the ticket-tracking system Request Tracker ("RT") and founded the company Best Practical Solutions.

He created RT while working at Wesleyan University in 1994. Graduating from the university in 1998,[1] Vincent founded Best Practical in 2001.[2] He co-authored RT Essentials in 2005.[3]

He is the founder and former project lead of K-9 Mail Email app for Android.[4]

In 2012 he became interested in the ergonomics of keyboards, having designed and built himself several designs.[5] In 2014 he co-founded Keyboardio.

In 2021, he co-founded VaccinateCA, a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines.

Perl

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From 2005 to 2008 he served as the project manager for Perl 6. He was the keeper of the pumpkin[6] for Perl versions 5.12 and 5.14. He changed the release cycle for Perl 5 from an irregular release done at the leisure of the project manager to a regular timeboxed release with development releases monthly and stable releases annually.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Russian/Study abroad, Wesleyan.edu. Jesse Vincent '98, last entry on page. Retrieved on 29 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Speaker: Jesse Vincent: Android Open - O'Reilly Conferences, October 09 - 11, 2011, San Francisco". androidopen.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. ^ Vincent, Jesse; Spier, Robert; Rolsky, Dave; Chamberlain, Darren; Foley, Richard (2005-08-18). RT Essentials: Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain, Richard Foley: 9780596006686: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-0596006686.
  4. ^ "Team". Archived from the original on 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  5. ^ "Better and better keyboards". fsck.com. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  6. ^ "Perl version 5.18.2 documentation" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  7. ^ "The Great Pumpkin - Jesse Vincent - org.perl.perl5-porters - MarkMail". markmail.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
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