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, Drew.
According to this https://support.mozilla.org/es/products/firefox/chat-and-share/firefox-… hello "went away" in FF 49 in September 2016.
I see this related to Nextcloud Talk https://nextcloud.com/talk/ which looks pretty good. My Nextcloud-fu is pretty rudimentary; are their public instances of Nextcloud out there that would support this kind of use, or must one run their own server?
Your last comment is spot on; probably - for us, anyway - the strongest reason for Signal is that it is pretty much a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp, which our family was already happily using, so convincing everyone to change wasn't hard. Convincing all my colleagues to switch... hmmmm that's another matter.
Wooooooooohooooooooo Eric this is a GREAT article. It's a good personal development philosophy for all of us. In my case, it also feels like what our business does for its clients; but I don't believe we've ever quite characterized it that way. Thanks a LOT!