bootload: About

Peter Renshaw authored this page on 19 December 2005 at 11:09 Hrs. 


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Work

Peter Renshaw, Entrepreneur, Software developer, technical writer. Move along nothing interesting. Move along unless your interested in software and the software development process.

 ... Living only on take-out and 
 caffeine. Working in a [small] 
 living room. Crazy, stupid, 
 unprofessional behavior. Wearing 
 nothing but shorts and ripped 
 t-shirts. ... [Paul Graham]

In product development stealth mode for a small startup. Worked for numerous software and Internet companies some of which even survive today :) Been logged on, reading & working on the Internet long enough to remember it pre WWW.

Nick

Why goon? - curiously have the same birth date as 2 members of '...The Goons...'.

Community

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First Computer

Sinclair ZX80.

First Application 

 REM Hmm ... something like 
 0 I = 0
 10 PRINT "REM Line # ", I
 20 I = I + 1
 30 GOTO 10

My Favorite Application or Project

Apple ][e and its open approach to hardware and slots. The fact you didnt have to buy another monitor and could use a TV instead. PR#6 to reboot.

Currently

 Vim, beep, curl, pgp, monodevelop, mono, ppp, fp

My Worst Application or Project

DOS n. Remember config.sys, drivers and autoexec.bat?

Currently

 anything cms. Increasingly google search, chandler.

My First Experience with Open Source

Logging onto school account and downloading source code using FTP from ftp.oak.edu while listening to faculty staff discussing how it was impossible. Using Mozilla for the first time in early '94 and comparing it to Gopher.

What I Like Most about Open Source

Freedom to read & change, compile code.

What I Dislike About Open Source

100 apps that do the same thing all fighting it out for top placing. Sparce, conflicting and incorrect documentation.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. You can read more about the license here.

Misc

bootload: groking software, bit by bit into plain english

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