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Well, I was born on a normal day in July, 1981 and have been creating chaos ever since. Born in North Carolina, but raised in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, I have been messing around with computers nearly my entire life. I wrote my first program in assembly when I was 11. In my early teens I ran a BBS connected to Fidonet and started building a website for my band. In 1999 I was introduced to Linux, and it was love at first compile. I started my career in IT in the early 2000's doing IT for a Car Dealership in Charlotte NC. I wrote my first major web app in Cold Fusion (an ecom app) at that time. In 2006 I left Charlotte and moved down to Columbia where starting working as a developer, freelancer and consultant. Currently I am working as a freelance developer and DevOps consultant!!


A breather and a Blog post

\n Lately I have been working like I don’t know what! It’s been crazy. But, I have a few minutes to spare and thought that I’d write another post. Komodo crashed on my so much that I have deemed it a lost cause. I have had similar luck on the post Oracle Netbeans builds.. so I have switched to Eclipse for my IDE needs. Emacs still rocks, but if I need a little bit more power, I have Eclipse. I use it with the Aptana and RadRails plugins. So, it makes a great html editor….but I still prefer emacs for rails work.

Over the weekend I installed Debian Squeeze. It is the first totally free kernel. No non-free drivers or modules. I like.

Anyway. Good times. What else is going on right now? Finishing up one hell of a project. Not hard my nature…hard by the folks I have to deal with. I have another major contract coming up (but can’t say too much about it yet) and I am preparing for my session and workshop at POSSCON. It’s getting closer! If you are not signed up yet, you should! I’ll be giving a talk on using OSS to help run your business on the cheap. My workshop will be a great time where we go over how to use most of the software that I talk about in my session. This is my first time talking a major conference and I am excited about it!

Well, that’s all for right now. I’ll try and have some cool stuff for you all soon!

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