User since: Jul 08, 2003 at 18:02 UTC Last here: May 21, 2013 at 23:53 UTC (22 seconds ago) Experience: 9400 Level: Prior (17) Writeups: 1150 Location: Waukesha, WI, USA User's localtime: May 21, 2013 at 18:53 CDT Scratchpad: View Member of: power users

About the image

A view from the Milwaukee lakefront, facing south from the platform behind the Milwaukee War Memorial Center. From left to right you see

• Lake Michigan ;-)
• Discovery World
• Hoan Bridge
• Milwaukee Art Museum, including the Calatrava
• Milwaukee Transit Center, with the US Bank tower in the background
• just the fence of the Milwaukee War Memorial Center

About me

My name is Brian T. Wightman. I provide technological solutions.

org-mode

Org-mode is an emacs-lisp module that implements an interface to a file format that is essentially an outline on steroids. The file format is now being processed by languages and editors other than emacs.

I use org-mode as my GTD storage, work notes (bug tracking, project notes and planning, log book, run book), taking minutes for a board I am on, and consulting records. It is flexible enough to provide a framework that can be customized to allow many uses. I don't intend this to be a sales pitch, but am just a really happy customer :-).

There are some monks that use org-mode:

• aartist
• choroba
• educated_foo
• epimenidecretese
• LanX
• metaperl
• MidLifeXis
• silent11
• Voronich
• zek152

I am collecting a set of org-mode resources as well:

• http://orgmode.org
• Org::Parser
• ORG to POD translator - node by LanX with a containing a quick-and-dirty org2pod filter.
• https://github.com/eschulte/babel-dev/raw/master/scraps.org - A nice collection of (possibly out of date) pieces of org stuff that is used for babel stuff, tangling code, and other fun things.

Sidelining

I am currently looking for some sideline contracting positions for about 5-10 hours a week, remote and off hours. See my consulting link for more information.

I have experience with Perl, system administration, security administration, web administration, and other general system maintenance on many types of Unix. I have administered solo small (20-50 machine) Unix shops to working as part of a team in mid to large (100-500+ machine) size shops.

I am amazed, but I am past my 20 year mark at being paid for this type of work.

If interested, please contact me at consulting<at>wightmanfam<dot>org. Note: the address url is tagged, and will change over time as it is discovered by spammers. The displayed address will work for the forseeable future.

Interesting Links

• Perl is a Shinto Shrine
• Ovid on RELEASE_TESTING / AUTOMATED_TESTING flags
• Basic debugging checklist
• Editor Learning Curves
• Perl is my cast iron pan
• How's your Perl?

Other Personal Links

• My home base
• LinkedIn Profile
• Use Perl
• GitHub (also see GitHub Web Site)
• I am a Twit
• I have a Where's George profile. Yeah, I know, they are watching me now. :)

Monks I have met in real life

This is a list of monks I have met in real life and where I met them. If you remember meeting me and are not listed here, remind me of where we met.

• brian_d_foy - brian d foy - YAPC::NA 2012
• dasgar - John Ellyson - YAPC::NA 2012
• szabgab - Gábor Szabó - YAPC::NA 2012

Disclaimer

Contrary to some search results, I do not have a livejournal profile. That midlifexis is an unfortunate name collision, and appears to be quite a different person. The only valid location for this moniker is here on perlmonks This moniker is valid on sites listed in my Other Personal Links section.