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The Professor circa 1968 |
This site is for the sharing of a variety of
(mostly) technical information about many different subjects, from software,
to installation problems, to technical explanations. I hope it will be
a resource as it develops and matures. One of my goals is to share
things I have learned over the years (and continue to learn). While I
will not restrict my topics to technology (anything interesting is fair
game), that's where most of my expertise is, so that will get most of the
focus (or is it foci?) Content here is provided by blog, podcast, vodcast,
links, white papers, illegibly scribbled notes, and other topic-specific
pages. Feel free to send feedback, suggestions, or ideas for topics.
I am into sharing, so I am a big fan of open source, open courseware, the
CreativeCommons licensing, and other such things. Were it not so, I
would not be able to play around with this stuff on my meager academic
salary.
If you are an educator that also has an interest in this model of sharing
and open community, you might want to visit my (more academic and less
technical) site at
www.edprogress.org. Otherwise, if you're a student, are
academically challenged, academically uninterested, bored stiff by all
things esoteric but excited about all
things technical, or are even a fellow geek, stick with this site.
Yes, I am a real professor. I've been an educator for over 30 years
and have been in the computer biz as a professional for the past 26.
My first programming course was on punched cards, programming in Fortran.
I can program in IBM System 370 assembly language (try writing a database in
that), Forth (dead), Pascal (almost dead), RPG (should be dead), and COBOL
(dying, although the obituary has already been written). I like php, VB.NET, Java, and C++ better, though (and they
are all still very much alive!). See the short
bio page if you are
interested in more trivia about me. In the meantime, enjoy the site
and any feedback (see the bottom of the page for the email link) will be appreciated. |
