Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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José, me gusta mucho tu artículo.
Como canadiense que trabaja en Chile, tengo una experiencia similar a tuya: distancia, idioma, "que hora es", etc. Pero lo bueno es que la comunicación entre personas de distintas culturas enriqueza la vida. En mi caso las dificultades valen la pena! (podría ser una buena idea preguntar a mis colegas para verificarlo...)
Thank you very much for writing this. Thank you for taking the time to write in English so that all the readers of this site can benefit by it.
Un abrazo del norte!
Antoine, thank you for this great article! Never having tried to record anything before, I have mostly ignored the issues but this makes them very clear without requiring a deep technical understanding.
Very nice, congratulations!