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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Thanks for your comment, markh. I've added Clementine to my list of players to review.
Thanks for your comment, Eduardo. To answer your question, this is the kind of article that introduces an evaluation scheme I'm going to use for other players, in future articles. You might note that, at the end, I mention that I will be taking a look at Clementine, Amarok and others in upcoming articles...
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. I have added all of them to my list of players to review.