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Name: John BEPPU
Member since: 2000-01-04 00:10:45
Last Login: N/A
Homepage: http://beppu.lbox.org/
Notes: John Beppu is JustAnotherPerlHacker?. Currently, he is stranded in Utah, but he hopes to be back in California within a year. Let it be said, however, that the people in Utah have been very good to him, and that he is very grateful for the chance he's been given to prove himself.
John is a firm believer in FreeSoftware, because it promotes cooperation and good will. This stuff is good for your soul, and he's glad that he lives in a time where one can make a living writing and supporting Free Software. I thank all those who came before me who made this possible, and I hope I can continue their legacy. RichardStallman is a hero.
So far, my contributions to Free Software are as follows:
Significant contributions to other people's projects:
Minor patches:
- nasm - fixed a tiny parser bug
- HTML::Mason - fixed a minor bug in displaying HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler?'s name in Apache::Status
- elvis - implemented softtabstop (like vim has (alas it was not accepted))
- vim - contributed syntax highlighting for ECD files
- GNUstep - fixed $IFS corruption in GNUstep.sh (ls --color works again! rejoice!)
- uClibc - I wrote most of the start.S for i386
My own projects:
Mostly, I like having
FunWithPerl, but I am also proficient in /bin/sh, C, and x86 assembly. In the future, I would like to work
ObjectiveCee and
ObjectiveCaml into the mix. I'd also like to start dabbling in audio programming.
What I'd really like to do is take long extended breaks off work so that I can werk on my own projects more. I could see myself in a spacious house overlooking the sea on the Central Coast of California... coding by night, sleeping and enjoying the outdoors by day... ahhhhhh.
So how do I get from here to there???
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why not recycle my wiki bio?
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17 Jan 2001 »
Rather than maintain 2 different bios (one on c2.com and one here at
advogato), I decided to use the same one on both sites.
I'm currently working on a long-term project to write replacements
for some of the proprietary tools sold by Lineo. I think it's a
shame that few people outside of Lineo know what the Embedix Linux
distribution is all about.
Here's the basic idea: unlike normal distros, Embedix ships all
its packages in source form. To create an instance of the Embedix
distro, Lineo provides a tool called Target Wizard which
allows one to:
- pick which packages to install
- configure how the package is compiled
- configure what parts of the package to leave out
- compile everything when you're done configuring
It does a little more, but these are the fundamentals. This really
allows one to size optimize a linux installation to the very bare
minimum you need.
<rant>
I'm not usually one to cheerlead, but I think this is a pretty
good idea. That's why it pains me that much more that hardly anyone
in the community knows about this stuff, because it's proprietary,
and not easy for people to get ahold of and play with.
Anyway, I'm writing a Free version of Target Wizard. I'm doing this
mostly by myself, and management doesn't really know about it.
I feel indebted to the Free Software community, and I feel it's about
time I give back something significant.
I'm also trying to test my programming skills.... to see if I can pull
this stunt off. This is the biggest project I've personally undertaken, and
I'd be really happy if I succeeded. It's also a lot more interesting than the
normal work I've been assigned to do.
</rant>
.....and when I'm done,
I'll move back to California,
but not before then.
1 Jan 2001 »
Yesterday, I made good progress on Embedix::DB::Pg. It's a perl
module that is going to be able to do dependency handling and conflict
resolution for while configuring an Embedix distributions.
11 Dec 2000 »
I haven't done this for a while, but I thought I should
mention that I got my PAUSE id on December 6th (which was my
birthday). What awesome timing. Now I have the privelege
of contributing to CPAN. I am honoured.
25 Jul 2000 »
I think I should start visiting advogato more often. I keep
a few different diaries but they're all on different
machines and none of them are public.
I need to update my contributions to the Free Software
community by making note of DBIx::Hotel and the JavaScript
ATM. Ironically, these are going to be used to demo a
proprietary web browser.
More to come in a bit...
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