[PSF-Community] [ PSF community ] my introduction
Christian Tismer
tismer at stackless.com
Tue Sep 22 16:58:51 CEST 2015
Hi Uche,
yes, I remember very well, it was nice to see you at IPC7 in Houston.
I will not elaborate here, would become too sentimental.
See you next time at PyCon, I hope, talking then.
cheers - chris
On 22/09/15 16:46, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> I just had to delurk to say "wow!" I've read every single one of these
> intro e-mail messages, despite being in a pretty busy period. I don't
> find them pointless at all, and I particularly enjoyed reading this
> fascinating introduction. Thanks for this, Cliff.
>
> The first thing that got me hooked on Python, back in '95 or so was its
> readability, but what has really always kept me in this community,
> starting with my trip to IPC7, Houston in '98 [1] has been the people. I
> hope we never grow too large, 700-member mailing list or no, to
> appreciate the individuals who keep it worth sticking around.
>
> [1] http://legacy.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
>
>
> --Uche
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 1:24 AM, iLoveTux - <me at ilovetux.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto:me at ilovetux.com>, and if you want to
> check out my (not quite abandoned) blog you can find it at
> www.ilovetux.com <http://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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