Chris Hermansen

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Chris Hermansen portrait Temuco Chile
Vancouver, Canada

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 the kind comments, Don! First time I ever heard Gregorian Chant was in 1988, when the wonderful person who eventually married me moved to Vancouver and brought a double CD by el Coro de monjes del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cwHhzmU7ps&list=PL0LxyRVWLtuuFseiMpCqy… with her... Nearly 10 years later was the first time I ever heard Kwanzaa Posse, when I bought Quango's World Groove compilation CD, which is a fine album even though they somehow managed to mix up the titles and artists on the last two tracks, Sous le Soleil de Bodega by Les Negresses Vertes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tklk596Urg and Wicked Funk by Kwanzaa Posse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB2wiiOoeEQ. None of the artists on this album were familiar to me at the time. Fond memories of summer road trips with my family listening to this and singing along... Besides Kwanzaa Posse, I have since managed to buy other albums by Les Negresses Vertes and Rachid Taha. Taha's cover of Rock the Casbah is awesome... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbFYsi9iSg Sadly he passed away last year...

Thank you very much for the kind comment, GriffinMatilda!