[PSF-Community] [ PSF community ] my introduction

[Jacqueline Kazil]

Loved reading about your transition -- there is a org in the DC area that
helps folks basically go through the transition that you did, but in more
of larger community supported / structured manner.

More here: http://www.mission-launch.org/rebuilding_re_entry


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:24 AM, iLoveTux - <me at ilovetux.com> wrote:

> Hello, World:
>
> I, too, have been lurking in the background trying to see what the general
> consensus was around these introductions. As most people seem in favor of
> them, I've decided to add mine.
>
> Online I go by the pseudonym iLoveTux, although my real name is Cliff. I
> started programming in the '97 with QBasic (that's what was taught in my
> high school's intro to computer programming class) and moved on to Pascal,
> but I stuck with QBasic for my hobbyist adventures (I credit this to an
> online publication called "The QuickBasic Fanzine" which kept my interest).
> Around this time I got very interested in the move to object oriented
> programming, and started in on C++ (and subsequently C), but life got in
> the way of pursuing my career as a software developer.
>
> In 2003, I was arrested for three counts of armed robbery and spent 5+
> years in prison. I was then released on parole in 2008 and pursued any
> employment I could find. I worked at McDonald's for about 4 years (I made
> it to manager after 6 months which is about the time I met my loving wife),
> then I learned how to make hand tossed New York style pizza, which earned
> me more money than McDonald's. This is about the time that I had my first
> child, a boy, and I soon became manager of the pizza shop. I then got a job
> offer, my uncle who I would talk to on the phone about random computer
> stuff (I never lost my interest in computer programming) had an opening for
> a developer and wanted me to learn Python, so I hopped on codeacademy and
> started to learn. A few months later (I still had to work), I was ready to
> move on and start this new job. It is around this time that I had my second
> son.
>
> Well, my new job was to develop a tool to help manage multiple IBM
> DataPower appliances. After three rewrites, I have a pretty cool
> architecture, although right now there is a big cleanup effort going on
> because I just learned about what are probably the two best, and
> underutilized tools for working on large applications in Python, setuptools
> entry_points (for a ready-made plug-in  system), and (while not strictly a
> Python tool) git submodules. Also, I have incorporated the
> Anaconda/MiniConda Python Distributions to serve the same purpose as the
> (new in Python 3.5) embedded distribution of Python. So three new things
> added to our product caused a major need for some major cleanup, but it's
> going well especially for a product that has taught me (through trial and
> error) so much about real-world programming.
>
> Also, recently I became enamored with the (new to me) concept of Test
> Driven Development (remember I had dropped out of the scene from
> 2003-2013). To start with this concept I created a project called
> data.store which acts as a primitive database whose syntax is inspired by
> MongoDB. You can check this out at https://github.com/ilovetux/datastore
> or just "pip install data.store"
>
> Anyway, that's the abbridged version. With an eye to the future I'm
> pursuing a udacity nano-degree in full stack development and otherwise
> trying to keep busy. I have also just added my third child, a daughter, to
> our family. I hope everyone on this list is having as much fun in life as I
> am!
>
> If anyone needs any help our just want to talk shop, you can email me at
> me at ilovetux.com, and if you want to check out my (not quite abandoned)
> blog you can find it at www.ilovetux.com.
>
> My other interests in addition to Python:
>
> Open Source Software
> Linux (usually Fedora or CentOS)
> ksh
> Docker
> Splunk
> XML/XSLT/XPath
> JQuery
> HTML/CSS/JavaScript
> Pandas
> SQL
> Regular Expressions
> And a few others I can't think of right now
>
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Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil
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