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.

Authored Comments

Hey Seth, thanks for detailed and useful comment.

I'm pretty sure lots of people are using xmodmap for this purpose, but I've seen - in various places, for example:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034402.html

that xmodmap is deprecated. So I decided to leave it out of the article. Probably a wrong decision. Anyway I really like your approach.

Thanks for the fun comment, MartyMonroe! As a matter of curiousity WHERE do you get your trilbies? I'm coming up dry on them locally...