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ger is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: Gerald Oskoboiny
Member since: 1999-11-25 11:38:29
Last Login: N/A

Homepage: http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Notes:

I work for W3C from home in Ottawa, Canada, as a sysadmin and web tools hacker.

Open source stuff I have worked on include the W3C HTML Validation Service, some searchable news/mail archive software, and misc smaller projects.

I generally try to certify only those that I have interacted with personally somehow, not complete strangers. (there are a couple on my list that don't fit this criteria, oops)

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Recent blog entries by ger

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24 Oct 2001 (updated 25 Oct 2001 at 02:47 UTC) »

Tonight I wrote an LPI Level 2 beta exam supervised by dyork; I agree, it was pretty tough. :)

I wrote down some thoughts about the exam; my general impression was quite positive.

Oh... apparently my use of "wrote" above is a Canadian thing; I didn't help author the test, I just took it. Sorry aboot that.

18 Dec 2000 »

I implemented whitelist-based spam filtering using procmail. Woohoo, no more spam in my inbox, ever!

The "edit this page" bookmarklet thing I wrote last week continues to be extremely useful.

13 Dec 2000 (updated 13 Dec 2000 at 20:21 UTC) »

A couple days ago I made a bookmarklet that adds an "Edit this page" button to my browser toolbar. When clicked, it causes Netscape to spawn an xterm with vi on the corresponding document in my local cvs checkout space, then does a cvs commit afterwards. (and the cvs commit causes the file to be automatically checked out on my remote web site)

It's really useful! Now when I see something I want to change while surfing around my site, I click "Edit this page" and within 1-2 seconds I am in vi editing the right file.

See details/code.

16 Mar 2000 »

Sourcexchange seems pretty cool; I submitted a proposal a while back, but it didn't get picked up because my choice of implementation language was too different from what they wanted.

The other day I hacked on HURL a tiny bit: added support for References: and In-Reply-To: headers. Here's a sample.

I generally use a mailing list for diary-type stuff, so updates here will probably be infrequent...

ger certified others as follows:

ger certified scandal as Master
ger certified raph as Master
ger certified DV as Master
ger certified connolly as Journeyer
ger certified jenglish as Journeyer
ger certified jwz as Master
ger certified ping as Journeyer
ger certified alan as Master
ger certified dcm as Master
ger certified blizzard as Master
ger certified shaver as Master
ger certified jg as Master
ger certified mnot as Journeyer
ger certified dwiner as Apprentice
ger certified aaronsw as Apprentice
ger certified rms as Master
ger certified Ankh as Master
ger certified BrucePerens as Master

Others have certified ger as follows:

cannam certified ger as Journeyer
ping certified ger as Journeyer
jenglish certified ger as Journeyer
DV certified ger as Journeyer
link certified ger as Journeyer
dneighbors certified ger as Journeyer
aaronsw certified ger as Journeyer
dyork certified ger as Journeyer
connolly certified ger as Journeyer
Ankh certified ger as Journeyer
sqlguru certified ger as Journeyer
jnewbigin certified ger as Journeyer
samanderson certified ger as Master
adulau certified ger as Master
whitetom certified ger as Master

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