Hey all,
Here's an 'official intro'...
Interested in contributing to the project, although I expect the
capacity to vary a bit based on my paid job schedule, as well as getting
up to speed on AOS development after 'forever' away from it.
I've worked as a paid developer for > 8 years, as well as a sysadmin,
and have done build/release engineering as well as some PM work.
Languages of choice are C and C++, and have done a good amount of
cross-platform development, primarily in the *nix world and
unfortunately, Windows. Other languages include SQL, shell, Java, Python..
I've worked with most flavors of *nix, Solaris since Solaris 2.5.1,
Linux since pre 1.0 kernel days. Add HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and others as
I've been 'forced to.' Stared out on TRS-80, Pet, Apple, (first 3
'borrowed'), VIC-20, Atari 400, then a handful of Amigas before going
into the US military, where I ironically wound up working on databases,
then leaving and getting a degree in CS and 'starting real work' ;-)
Most dev work has been back-end (server side or writing to system APIs
like POSIX and win32 API), no GUI- although I've got a bit of HCI and
know 'what makes a good UI,' I just never got into that part of
development...current 'preferred platforms' are basically anything not
Windoze..FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Solaris are 'personal use', and trying
to like Mac OS X currently, although I'm not sure how that one will pan
out (looks like they took a perfectly good Unix and broke it so far :-( )
Currently have a uA1 on order, am told it'll be a week or two to have in
hand (finally?).
Work schedule changes daily lately, but am under the gun for the next
few weeks or so, more than likely...after that, things may ease up a bit.
I'll be starting basically back at square one for AOS development, so
will have to spend some time doing that once my uA1 comes up, but
whatever I can do in the meantime I'll certainly try to.
I mentioned to Olegil that if an rsync mirror is needed for any of the
project's work, I should be able to supply that on RAID disk...either
the entire repository/website can be replicated, or just the source
tree, whichever. The connection wouldn't be fast enough for anything
else, at ~384k, but more than fast enough for a backup or for source
control, defect tracking, or the like. That system would likely be a
dual PIII FreeBSD box, which should be able to run any tools if any are
needed.
I've no overwhelming urge to become a PM as my paid work is 'enough' for
right now, but if/when leads are needed for 'other than head honcho' for
specific tasks, I could probably help out in that area until I can get
AOS coding up to speed...
Thanks,
Scott (Wegster on forum(s))