David Legg wrote:
Once again, I'd like to thank the community for accepting me as a
Cocoon committer.
Finally, it is a good tradition that a new committer introduces
himself on this list.
I'm an English web developer, married with a child and working in
Bracknell, England. I've been lurking around Cocoon for what seems
like forever (read 2000). Back then SoC (Separation of Concerns), XML
and XSLT were all shiny and new.
I started my career back in 1984 writing 8086 assembler for a chess
games company (oh yes! non of that 8-bit rubbish for me!). I even
remember wondering if I should download Minix or something called
Linux from some student upstart called Linus Torvalds ;-) The best
thing I learnt from these early days was a healthy respect for
designing memory efficient software.
Goodness, gracious - that means you either started writing code in the
crib or you are almost as old as me!
Gradually and inevitably I moved over from writing system software and
firmware to this new fangled thing called the web. This is where I
fell in love with Java, Tomcat and JSP programming.
You fell in love with JSPs? I have no idea what to say to that!
My current interests lie in the semantic web and the world of
triplestores, inference engines and RDF and how to do something useful
with it all. You can be sure I'll be trying to glue it together with
Cocoon.
It's a privilege to be a part of this project.
David Legg
Welcome, David!
Ralph
