[mnet-devel] Allow me to introduce myself...

[icepick at icepick.info]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:11:08AM -0800, rob kinninmont wrote:
> While I've a bunch of programming experience, I've very little 
> experience with python.  Everything I know of it (including writing a 
> few tools and scripts) makes me excited to be learning more - I hope 
> you'll humour me in my python na?vet?.  Perhaps more importantly, with 
> regard to Mnet, I have a reasonable grasp of the principles from 
> talking to Jim over the years, from a CS perspective more than anything 
> else, but don't know my way around the code at all, so I'm going to be 
> trying to wrap my head around it, make sense of it, and figure out 
> where I fit into it.

Python's a breeze.  I learned it in a two week coding spree while writing
the wxGUI.

> I've been thinking for some time that I should get involved in an open 
> source project or two, since I support the open-source philosophy, and 
> I believe that I'll get to know more people who are interesting and 
> like minded.  Hence I'm pleased to be joining the Mnet community, 
> though I'll admit I'm apprehensive about coming into the group as an 
> almost complete stranger.

Lurk on #mnet (I saw you once, come back!).  We don't bite.  Email is not so
good for getting to know other people.

]> In amongst my reading I looked at the Twisted coding standards, and saw 
> a recommendation to use emacs.  I've been a vim user for years 
> (initially a left over from learning vi for doing sysad, later mostly a 
> familiarity thing) and have been thinking for a while that I should 
> learn emacs.   I wondered what the folks on the mnet team use/recommend 
> as a dev environment - partly since I imagine it'd be easier to 
> collaborate if we're using the same tools, but mostly since I don't 
> know what the best choices and approaches are for python development 
> and debugging.  Also, I hope you'll humour me in any unfamiliarity I 
> have with the tools, and would appreciate any recommendations folks 
> have for learning to use e.g. emacs effectively.

joe is the best editor.  Really.  Use that.  

Each has their own fav. editor.  Use what works for you.

> As for my background, I'm a Brit - but please don't hold that against 
> me, at least not until you know me ;-)  I grew up in the North East of 
> England, in an area predominantly serving local chemical and steel 
> industries, but surrounded by agriculture.  After escaping to 
> university in cambridge and studying CompSci for a few years, I managed 
> to escape further - this time to California.

This keeps up and we'll be a virtual UN.  Except we'll actually do
something.

> Aside from a year spent dead for tax reasons, I've lived here in 
> California for the last six years working in a variety of tech jobs 
> mostly programming, but with a good dose of sysad, and mostly unix but 
> with a splattering of windows and mac.  The job I moved here for was at 
> the (in some circles) infamous Electric Communities, and amongst the 
> things I gained from that experience were: exposure to distributed 
> systems and p2p before they became buzzwords; a lasting interest in 
> security and distributed systems (which I then, for the most part, 
> failed to pursue, but that's another story); and getting to know Jim 
> McCoy (as well as a wealth of other cool people).

Why infamous?

myers


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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.


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