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 comments, Eion Robb. Any chance you could provide a link supporting your comments?
As far as I can tell, with respect to Signal, you are referring to the matters discussed in this post
https://lwn.net/Articles/687294/
which in any case is an interesting read. Thanks for making me go and find it!
Thanks for the comment, Claus. I haven't looked into Jami but see the previous message.