Everyone tells me that I should have a web page. Well, this is it. Everyone also tells me that I should have a portfolio page. Here it is.

The World According to Jeff

Welcome to my little corner of the Net. You might have noticed the URL. Yes, its my amateur radio call sign. I've been licensed since the summer of 1976. That means I'll be eligible for the QCWA in 2001! QCWA... Yup... I'm old. How did I end up this way? Jeff's life story is one click away.

So, you ask, what have I done for the net lately? Good question.

For a while, I was writing occasional articles for computer industry trade magazines. Mostly Unix-World, and Interact - an HP-3000 specific publication.

I participate a little in some of the internet-developed software out there, Linux a POSIX 1003 compliant OS; Samba, a Microsoft LAN Manager/NT SMB file server; Postgres SQL database; Netscape WWW browser; Perl programming language;

and my own little bits of software...

Vomitran, a Perl version of the classic FORTRAN source code obfuscator
http-get, a Perl program which given a URL, fetches the file. Options include being able to provide (or spoof) HTTP parameters such as HTTP-REFERRER.

Recently, I've been playing around with Netscape's DHTML. There are some pretty cool effects which can be achieved. My style is a little more subdued than some of the demo pages I've seen out there. If you are looking for some more DHTML and Javascript examples, try some of mine.

Then there is WeBee

Lately I've been playing in the database world. Now that some of the big boys have released their products for Linux, I've had an opertunity to play with them. Of course, I'm playing with Perl. DBI and DBD are Perl modules which interface with SQL databases. Here are some progrms I've written which use DBI and DBD with Sybase: Sy_load, a table loader; sy_unload, a table unloader; and sy_report, a general purpose report writer, inspired by the Informix Ace report writer.

Then there are my Icecast experiments with internet radio.

My latest goof is an experiment with Google Maps.

Even some of my friends have web pages. If you have a minute or two, I don't think they'd mind if you were to drop by...

Paul works two buildings down from where I do. He has a similar job, and a similar attitude about how to get things done.
Chris sits at the desk right next to mine. (Actually, since we've been Dilbert-ized, the next cube.) He's much more the visionary and evangelist, while I'm much more the knob turner.
Larry and I worked at the same company a few years ago. Whenever anyone tells me to get serious about something, I tell them about Larry.
I met Mark when I got my ham radio license. He's been fooling with computers longer than I have.
Steve and I met in the fourth or fifth grade when my family moved into his neighborhood.

There are really too many neat places on the net to list here. The Links According to Jeff page lists a lot of them, and is only one click away.

If you find yourself with nothing better to do one weekend, drop by one of the central east coast hamfests. Maybe I'll see you there.

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Of course, if I think of anything new and exciting, I'll be adding it right here in this empty space.

If you think of anything that I've missed, drop me a line at jeff @ apogee . rockville . md . us I give all suggestions due consideration.