I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Awesome!
We (DACS.org) recently had a presentation by the Danbury Hackersapce on 3D printers and it always gets me salivating! :)
Plus, with a daughter constantly crafting some pretty impressive doll-sized items (like right now molding toilet paper into shapes for wrapping doll-sized presents) and furniture, and a brother-in-law who is a craftsman for RC boats and cars (and could probably use some specialty items when customizing) I think it would get quite some use.
Good luck, and thank you Opensource.com for offering these generous giveaways!
Great introduction. It is exciting news and I didn't know about it's portability.
At work our Intranet is ASP.NET but our external sites are Linux so if this can help consolidate the different OSs that would be great. Combine with MS SQL Server on Linux and our reliance on Microsoft Windows gets reduced even further.
I'd love to see more on setting up a workflow for developing .NET on Linux (or even Windows and Visual Studio) and deploying to a server running Linux.