Ben Lloyd Pearson

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Austin, TX

I have a background that spans many areas of IT, including web development, IT systems administration, technical writing, content management, digital media, and more; I strive to be a modern Renaissance Man. I handle open source operations in the Open Source Group at Samsung, and run Open Source Today, a news blog where I advocate open source technology and cover new developments in the open source industry.

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I think the best part about Willie is that even if you aren't a fan of his music, you can still appreciate how unique and awesome of a person he is. Thanks for the great story, I had a feeling you wrote this before I even clicked on it.

I used Google App Inventor for a short time when I was first learning to code and I loved the simplicity of it. I was dissappointed when I found out they were dropping it, but I'm really excited to hear someone is continuing this work. I learned to fundamentals of OOP while I was using Max/MSP (another visual programming language) and App Inventor was a great way for me to bridge that knowledge into text-based languages.