My turn.... After getting BS degrees in Math and Chemistry, I was a programmer up until 1982: engineering application programming in FORTRAN IV, BASIC compiler and tools in Burroughs Medium Systems BPL language (plus ANSI standards work in BASIC), COBOL compilers at Datapoint and then Tandem (plus some COBOL standards work).
Then I moved over to TW. I documented the daylights out of COBOL(74) and COBOL85, then some underlying utilities at Tandem, then moved on to Informix to be part of the NewEra database IDE team. Wandered over to Netscape to document NSAPI for a spell, then to Symantec to doc the VisualCafe Enterprise Edition Java IDE. After stints at Macromedia, Macrovision, and Model N, I'm documenting virtual machine infrastructure for VMware. In general, as a "reformed programmer," I write to the programmer audience. I'm a long-time officer of the Silicon Valley chapter of STC. Hobbies include genealogy (pretty much all German & Swiss back to the 1700s), reading about Biblical archeology and historical Jesus research and the development of the Christian canon, webmastering (my wife's business site, our United Methodist Church's site, and sites for my and her high school graduating classes), casual photography. Listening to folk and folk-pop music by Dar Williams, Cheryl Wheeler, Susan Werner, Chris Webster, Eric Bogle, and their ilk. We do some camping (trailer pulled by Chevy Suburban). Decent conversational skill in German, and reading acquaintance with Koine (New Testament) Greek. Limited skills in Spanish and Russian. I try to keep up with programming languages as well: Perl, Ruby, Python as well as Java, Javascript, and so forth. --Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley _______________________________________________ Are you a Help Authoring Trainer or Consultant? Let clients find you at www.HAT.Matrix.com, the searchable HAT database based on Char James-Tanny's HAT Comparison Matrix. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. Interested in Interactive 3D Documentation? Get the scoop at http://www.doc-u-motion.com -- your 3D documentation community. _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals To post a message to the list, send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com or, via email, send a blank message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the TCP site at http://www.techcommpros.com To find out more about the list, including archives and your account options, visit http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com If you need assistance with the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
