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, mv133.
I haven't done anything intentional to convert any existing code to anything else, other than upgrading NetBeans and OpenJDK and building in that new environment. It's possible that alone was enough to handle this JPMS conversion; but certainly I did not do anything active to promote that.
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It may help you to know that I'm using a VERY old instance of a library called "glazed lists" (I need to upgrade this one day), and it's working fine. Also I rely on PostgreSQL JDBC and SwingSet, which didn't need any fiddling.
Thank you for the kind note, James Brown!