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 comment, bahbah. I'll add these to the list of stuff to investigate!
Zsolt, as a long-time vi and latterly vim user (my first experiences with vi date back to 1984, and it's been my go-to since), I really REALLY appreciate this cool list that you have put together. Thank you!!!
Something slightly off the topic, but for people who like vi(m) but want a full-blown IDE for their programming work, there is a plugin for Netbeans called jVi that makes the code screens respond to those vi muscle-level memories...