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Andrew Marlow
44 Stanhope Road, North Finchley, London N12 9DT, England
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Open Source
I am interested in
Free Software
and
Open Source.
I am, or have been, involved in several
Open Source projects.
The ACCU
I am an active member of the
ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users).
I have done several book reviews for them and try to attend their
Spring conference each year.
CORBA
I have been interested in CORBA right from the beginning
(i.e. when the standard was so embryonic, CORBA would not even
interoperate with itself!). Despite the complexity of the standard,
I still think CORBA has alot to offer. I have used several ORBs, some
open source, some commercial. My favourite used to be MICO but unfortunately
the support for multithreading is still not finished so
TAO (the ACE ORB) is now the winner. I have also just started to look at
JacORB by Gerald Brose.
The best commercial ORB (IMO) still seems to be Orbix from IONA.
For those interested in CORBA I recommend heading over to
the web site of
Ciaran McHale, an IONA
consultant whom I have worked with before. He has a free book there which
I think provides a great practical introduction to programming
with CORBA.
The TeX users group
I am a keen user of TeX, via
the LaTeX
variant created by Leslie Lamport.
I have been a member of the UK branch of the
Tex Users Group for several years.
I tend to produce most of my documentation using LaTeX.
This allows me to produce
PDF and postscript files (via DVI conversion programs) and RTF files
(via latex2rtf).
The RTF format is an
open format
but due to its close integration with Microsoft Word for Windows it is
useful for people that require documents to be in a Microsoft format.
I used to use
latex2html
to create web pages from my LaTex documents, but have now found that
HeVeA
does a better job and is much faster.
Tools
Since September 2006 I started working more extensively
in a Microsoft Windoze environment (not my choice),
so I provide links
to tools that ease the pain a little.
I also have some other
tools,
most of which come from a UNIX environment.
Heroes of software
I was tempted to put this on the 'interests' section
but then I thought I would leave the geeky stuff out of those pages
so it ended up here.
There are so many potential heroes for a computer geek to look up to,
but my favourite is
Alan Turing.
He is regarded by many as the father of computer science
and is particularly admired by many of us in the UK for his
involvement in the outstanding effort
in decrypting German messages
during the Second World War
at the code cracking centre in
Bletchley Park.
Links
Here are links to some interesting software (all open source) ...
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