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 very informative comment, Daniel S. I particularly appreciate workflow suggestions as mine could always use improving!
I have not tried Picard but I have put it on my list. I haven't written the tagging software column yet but it's good to have this recommendation.
I have stopped using sound-juicer because I don't know how to make sure it is running cdparanoia with full error checking. Do you have any idea about this?
Thanks again!
Thanks for the comment, Carlie Coats.
Please don't get me started on the music players in cars. The very worst experience I ever had was in a Lancia Delta I rented back in mid-2014, whose "entertainment center" ran a commercial operating system we all know far too well. Well it WAS entertaining, I'll give you that.