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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Wow Aisyk, this is great information, thanks very much! I actually did not forget it - I never before encountered it. So thank you very much for bringing this forward; it's definitely going on my list of go-to sites.
Vous êtes français(e)? Je vois que le site est disponible en français ou anglais. Un grand conseil, merci beaucoup!
Thanks very much for the detailed and instructive comments, bobby!
Based on your suggestion, I went to http://etree.org/
Among other things I saw this comment, near and dear to my heart:
We do not distribute MP3 due to its lossy compression scheme which greatly degrades the quality of the audio. If you trade a CD-R's from MP3 audio, you are polluting the CD-R trading community.
I also noticed the pointer to http://wiki.etree.org/ and THERE I noticed some great how-to information.
This is a wonderful resource, bobby; thank you so much for introducing it.