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thraxil
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<p>i am a programmer for <a href="http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/">the columbia center for new media teaching and learning</a>. i've studied physics at <a href="http://www.bates.edu/">bates college</a>, computer engineering at <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/">columbia university</a>, and chinese at <a href="http://www.nju.edu.cn/">nanjing university</a>.</p>
<p>most of my experience and knowledge is related to database backed dynamic websites, website management and authoring tools, cryptography, and bioinformatics: perl, python, java, xsl, c, c++, ml, forth, sql (i <span style="font-size:small;color:#f00;">♥</span> <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">postgresql</a>), GNU/linux, xml (<a href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/">cocoon</a> rocks my world), xhtml, dhtml, user interface design and limited graphic design.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webstandards.org/">WaSP</a> <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/about/bios/apearson.html">member</a>.</p>
<p>i use emacs <em>and</em> vim.</p>
<p>my main area of interest and research is in wearable computing and, in particular, user interface design as applied to <a href="http://about.eyetap.org/library/weekly/aa061500a.shtml">wearable computing</a> and informed by <a href="http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html">ubiquitous computing</a>/<a href="http://nano.xerox.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm">calm technology</a>.</p>
<p>favorite blades on my swiss-army chainsaw:</p>
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<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBI">DBI</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Template">HTML::Template</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI.pm">CGI</a> (of course)</li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=XML-Twig">XML::Twig</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PerlMagick">Image::Magick</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=GD">GD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl">LWP::UserAgent</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~ilyam/Data-Dumper-2.121/Dumper.pm">Data::Dumper</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.09/lib/XML/Simple.pm">XML::Simple</a></li>
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<p>my homepage: <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~anders/">http://www.columbia.edu/~anders/</a><br />
my weblog: <a href="http://thraxil.org/">http://thraxil.org/</a>
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<p>i am available for freelance work.</p>
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