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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And sorry, Mitja, but by the way there is a plugin for Quod Libet that allows the user to control it from an MPD client, such as MPDroid. So if you like Quod Libet's feature set...
Thanks for the comment, CFWhitman. Great information.
I see in my repos that there is an xmms2 which purports to be a client-server redesign of xmms. There is no xmms however, so based on your comment and on the repo situation I think I will take xmms off my list.