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 very much for the great suggestion, Gonzalo!
I had been wracking my brain for precise name of the site and started searching for it on my favourite search engine... which led to the article itself...
Anyway as you say it is an excellent resource. I will add it to the list I am compiling for semi-regular posting.
Any more great suggestions? Thanks again!
Thanks, metak. That's a good pointer for the arch folks.
I believe the "build from source" option can / will use gstreamer-1.0 (or so I was told when I asked on AskUbuntu).