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gtoal:
I'm a Scots ex-pat living in South Texas, been programming since around 74 (at high school, we used to send coding sheets off to the local poly where students were paid to punch them on to cards - a compile/edit/run iteration took about a week), and I write code for fun probably more than I do for a living (although I work in a 'computer center', we generally don't do a lot of coding here, and what we do isn't very interesting).  At the moment my hobby project is writing a book on how to write a compiler (and writing a compiler to go along with the book).  But I usually have half a dozen different projects on the go at any one time.  And a backed-up queue of others that'll see me through retirement!  I can easily see myself contributing the odd quickie utility here, as long as you're OK with command-line stuff written in C.  If you want gooey flashness, someone else will have to add that...

Graham

cranioscopical:
Nice to see you here, Graham.

Looking forward to some software from you.

TomD101:
 I am a 46 year old civil servant from Berlin, Germany. I am happily
 married to a beautiful woman and father of three, two sons and a daughter.
 I have been a science fiction and comic fan all my life, collected both
 during high school and college (studying American and Japanese culture)
 and of course came into contact with computers way back in 1984 when I
 bought a Commodore 64 and a floppy drive. "Things went downhill from then".

 When my dad bought his first PC two years later, I quickly learned to
 work with it, explain its subtleties to my father and bringing his
 writing into shape. At that time I used DOS 3.3 and Word for DOS 5.0. I
 quickly became a renowned and experienced layouter, typed as fast as
 any  administrative assistant. My dad published several books to which I
 delivered anything short of pre-press.

 I got several jobs within his university circles (?), working as
 admin, layouter, administrative assistant and anything in between that
 made the writing of those doctors and professors look good. I learned
 incredibly much about hard- and software, networking, drivers and
 converters - remember, we are talking DOS here. I even tested a
 Windows 3.0 version on a 1-ton compaq laptop.

 During that time I got married, we had our first child and I had to
 change something in my life to ensure a steady and sufficient income in
 the future. I had a 3 year college study course in municipal
 administration, preparing me to work anywhere within the Berlin
 government or administration. After several stints in plain legal or
 personnel departments I switched to the central unit of our loan and
 payment software development and maintenance.

 We use a SAP based solution that ensures the correct and on-time
 payments to some 80.000 people within our administration. Berlin is a
 city with more than five million inhabitants. In this unit I work as
 admin for some 60 PCs, do some hotline and troubleshooting, maintain our
 website and take care of our huge pool of data when it comes to
 reorganisation and maintenance. Our house as its own IT dept., but I am
 the in-betweener taking some unnecessary load from them by helping my
 team to a certain limit.

Apart from that I have a ton of hobbies, a garden to take care of, a lot of sport events to attend when my kids play soccer, do cheerleading (honest, even Berlin has its share of football teams) or do 24-hour-swimming. We have four dogs and pudgies, a good share of friends. All in all we are a real Brady Bunch in a five-story-building. I pinned my location to the map.

Feel free to write me a mail. I will gladly answer it.

tomos:
hi Tom
welcome to dc
from another Tom ..

Darwin:
Wow - great intro and history, Tom! Welcome to DC  :Thmbsup:

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