Welcome %! Options: --toc --encoding=iso-8859-1 --css-sugar -o index.html %! Target: xhtml %! Style: colour.css % == What's here? == There's not a lot here, but you're welcome to browse anyway. Mostly what's here is a random collection of programming snippets, patches, and documentation for a variety of //Open Source// software. **I should add a note here that some of the style stuff (the footer especially) is taken from Tavis Ormandy. I should have attributed this to him when I "borrowed" it, but I didn't. So now I have. :)** == About me == My name's Thomas Adam, and I'm a 24 year old software engineer working for a small company that writes firewall software. When I'm not at work, I enjoy: - [Music ./music.rbx] - [Cooking fish ./fish.html] - Reading - Fishing When I am at work, I mostly program in [perl www.perl.org] for my sins. When I manage to escape that mad house, I don't do much programming at all, although I do a little bit as and when I feel like it. I'm quite choosy like that. :) The most enjoyable language for me has to be [ruby http://ruby-lang.org]. I suffer from a condition known as [social anxiety social_anxiety.html] == Open source contributions == Here's a list of some of the projects I contribute to (either code or user support, documentation, etc., although typically it's both.): - [FVWM www.fvwm.org] - [ELinks ./elinks.html] - [Mutt www.mutt.org] - [Ruby www.ruby-lang.org] - [GIT http://git.or.cz] - [Linux Gazette www.linuxgazette.net] These days, I mostly concentrate on FVWM, since it's the one thing I enjoy the most. I'm currently [mentoring http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?AvailablePureRubyMentors] four people (as of August 2007) in using Ruby to do a variety of interesting tasks. == Publications == === Academic === I co-authored a paper about student retention and activity integration: [Can More Intergrative Activity Improve the Learning Experience http://edulinux.homeunix.org/~n6tadam/IntegrativeActivity.pdf] -- published and spoken about at a BCS conference in 2006. === Linux Gazette === I've published the following articles in the Linux Gazette: - ``[issue 66]`` [Weekend Mechanic http://linuxgazette.net/issue66/adam.html] - ``[issue 67]`` [Weekend Mechanic http://linuxgazette.net/issue67/adam.html] - ``[issue 70]`` [Weekend Mechanic http://linuxgazette.net/issue70/adam.html] - ``[issue 78]`` [Weekend Mechanic http://linuxgazette.net/issue78/adam.html] - ``[issue 81]`` [Introduction to Programming Ada http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/adam2.html] - ``[issue 81]`` [Weekend Mechanic http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/adam.html] - ``[issue 96]`` [The Back Page http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/lg_backpage.html] - ``[issue 96]`` [X Fonts Display Poorly? Not Anymore http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/adam.html] - ``[issue 100]`` [The Back Page http://linuxgazette.net/100/lg_backpage.html] - ``[issue 100]`` [Fvwm and Session Management http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html] - ``[issue 105]`` [Fvwm http://linuxgazette.net/105/adam.html] - ``[issue 127]`` [FvwmEvent: conditional window checking by example http://linuxgazette.net/127/adam1.html] - ``[issue 127]`` [FVWM: How Styles are Applied http://linuxgazette.net/127/adam.html] - ``[issue 128]`` [Creating a Rudimentary Kiosk System using FVWM http://linuxgazette.net/128/adam1.html] - ``[issue 128]`` [How Fonts Interact with the X Server and X Clients http://linuxgazette.net/128/adam.html] === FVWM === - I've written some [patches ./fvwm/patches.html] for FVWM. - I contribute heavily to the [FVWM Forums http://fvwm.lair.be] - I'm a member of the FVWM and FVWM-Workers mailing-lists. - I contribute to the [Gentoo Forums http://forums.gentoo.org] only in answering questions about FVWM. - I've written numerous pages on the [FvwmWiki http://fvwmwiki.bu-web.de] - Malcolm [wrote a poem ./fvwm/wtfvwm.txt] about FVWM -- more specifically about #fvwm -- the channel on irc.freenode.net - I used to maintain the [#fvwm IRC channel FAQ ./fvwm/fvwmchanfaq.html] - I wrote a proof-of-concept idea in Ruby for a [FvwmQuiz fvwmquiz.rbx] - [Some reasons why ./fvwm/user_enumerate.html] FVWM doesn't have a GUI config tool. === ELinks === - I use and contribute to [ELinks http://elinks.or.cz]. - I've written a page about it [here ./elinks/] === Miscellaneous === - My [grandparents http://edulinux.homeunix.org/~n6tadam/family/] had their 50th wedding anniversity in 2003. - I like and use [xmem ./xmem.html] - [Bus X11 exists busx11.html] and it's your ride to anywhere in Geekdom! == Teddy bears == I love teddy bears. :D They keep me company. You can [read more ./teddies.html] about them here. %!include: footer.t2t %% Based on the color.html template found in the examples/ directory that %% comes with txt2tags.