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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This is a really useful article, Dan. Thanks a lot for writing it!
I've found myself stumbling over transitional problems in various Java and JVM projects (looking at JNLP, Netbeans, Groovy and Grails here especially) as we transition to the Java 11 and onward world here. It will be interesting to see if any of your Java NLP solutions are struggling similarly.
Don, you are most welcome!