Jesse Vincent (born June 21, 1976) is a computer programmer and

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, best known for his work with the Perl programming language. He created the ticket-tracking system

Request Tracker Request Tracker, commonly abbreviated to RT, is a ticket-tracking software written in Perl used to coordinate tasks and manage requests among an online community of users. RT's first release in 1996 was written by Jesse Vincent, who later forme ...

("RT") and founded the company Best Practical Solutions. He created RT while working at

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

in 1994. Graduating from the university in 1998, Vincent founded Best Practical in 2001. He co-authored ''RT Essentials'' in 2005. He is the founder and former project lead of

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Email app for Android. In 2012 he became interested in the ergonomics of keyboards, having designed and built himself several designs. In 2014 he co-founded Keyboardio. In 2021, he co-founded VaccinateCA, a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines.

Perl

From 2005 to 2008 he served as the project manager for Perl 6. He was the keeper of the pumpkin for

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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.

References

External links

RT Essentials

Personal Web site

contributions
to

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1976 births Living people Perl people Wesleyan University alumni {{US-compu-bio-stub