From: "F. Senault" Date: 2007-07-19T02:10:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background] Le 17 juillet � 15:26, Robert Dober a �crit : > Ok I'll put my cards on the table So... Male, 32. Background : Started with BASIC on a TRS-80 when I was 5, then a long string of languages, including BASIC variants, Pacal variants, Clipper, C, (Visual) C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, shells, javascript, perl, and a passing interest in anything I can get my hands on. Work : Systems / network administrator (in a multi-platform environment, mostly BSD/Linux/Windows), software architect and programmer, VB6 first and foremost (ew), then Perl, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and whatever is at hand for the task. Hobbies : My small part of the internet, running news servers (hi list !), and (right now) trying to make smallish games in Ruby and Ruby on Rails... (And stuff outside computers, of course.) Location : Li�ge, Belgium ; will travel for food and alcohol... }:> Fred Still 100% males. :| -- We've all heard the "herding cats" analogy with regard to managing programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a neighborhood gang of neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack habits and opposable thumbs. (Benjy Feen, www.monkeybagel.com)