Adam Trickett

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Currently Hants-LUG Chairman - see also CurrentCommittee

Summary

I started computing with a Commodore-64, then downgraded to DOS & Windows 3.1 while at university Leeds University. My simulation work ran too slowly in Turbo Pascal on DOS, so I was let loose on the University's big-iron Sun and SGI systems, my first introduction to Unix.

I then worked at UCR in the US for a few years, and it was there that I started to use RedHat Linux. After returning to the UK I got a job for the now defunct Inso Corporation, working with NT and Solaris systems.

I currently work in Basingstoke for a medical devices manufacturing company. I do a mix of things:

I use to do:

At home I switched from NT to Debian Linux in 2003. Since switching to Debian Linux full time I've found it to be very stable and reliable. At work I use Red Hat Linux and Enterprise Linux for web servers and SAP application servers. I'd like to take the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam, I've also been working on the course material for the vendor neutral LPIC-I exams.

Over two years ago I set my father up with a Debian Sarge based system (since upgraded to Lenny). During the process I also discovered a lot about desktop configuration for less able users - see LinuxHints/DesktopAdaptedDad. I've also become a bit of a Linux and open source advocate at work, converting a few colleagues to Firefox and Debian/ubuntu.

My better half has now migrated from Windows 98 to Debian Lenny/AMD64 and I learnt a lot more about KDE than I thought possible...

Interests

I'm a bit of jack of all trades, and master of none.

I program in Perl for work and at home, but I'm no JAPH. I'm a member of use perl;, PerlMonks and London.pm/ThamesValley.pm. You can download my Perl modules from CPAN if you want.

I do web stuff too, xhtml/css, CGI/mod_Perl and Apache admin. I know how it all works, and I can make W3C standard pages, and CGI/mod_Perl dynamic stuff, but I'm no expert.

On the Unix side, I've used Sun kit for over a decade, I currently have a SPARC station 5 at home but I've only really been a user and I'm no Solaris expert. I currently trying to learn more with OpenSolaris in a VirtualBox VM. I've used Linux since Red Hat 5.x. At work we run SAP on IBM AIX System-P servers on which I've been formally trained.

I do a lot of work with XML at work mostly using the Perl bindings to the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. We have mostly migrated away from a Java middlware application to using Perl and the SAP RFC library to talk directly to the SAP system.

LUG Talks

I've given a number of talks to this LUG and other similar groups. I'm prepared to given them again and you are more than welcome to download my talk materials and recorded presentations:

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