Welcome to the home page of Manni Wood, Sole Proprietor.
NEW! updated notes on getting key-based ssh authentication working, especially with a fix on home directory permissions for Fedora!
updated version of PostgreSQL syntax highlighting file for vim.
Updated version of my favourite way of backing up an entire system by duplicating its hard drive.
A brief guide on starting a new project using Git, including notes on bare remote repositories, which are not super-obvious from the Git documentation.
I started my own blog, where I can post my rantings about software (as opposed to more useful how-tos that dominate this site.
How to make your crappy PC keyboard act like a Unix keyboard!
I am an independent contractor who knows how to build database-backed, interactive web sites of the sort described here (though the websites I've worked on have been more marketing-oriented and less community-oriented).
I can be contacted at "manniwoodmail - contact1 @ yahoo.com". (Not my actual business e-mail address, but an address that I will use until the spamers' web crawlers start flooding it with spam... at which point, I'll terminate the address and update this page with a new disposable e-mail address.)
I currently do a lot of work in J2EE, but I agree with Bruce Tate, who says that Java and the J2EE stack are getting a little long in the tooth, and are ready to be supplanted by something that makes programmers more productive.
Ruby on Rails is certainly making a big splash, but I have to admit I'm a bit more intrigued by Django, which runs on Python rather than Ruby, and integrates well with Apache and PostgreSQL, two technologies I think are proven, and very important to integrate with.
In the end, though, I'm starting to believe more and more that Paul Graham is right about lisp being a final destination for the evolution of programming languages. One day, I hope to implement a web site in lisp: It would be nice to learn the final language, rather than all the stop-gap languages that will inevitably spring up on the road to evolving into something more and more like lisp.
Please navigate to any place on this site that intrests you: I use my site as a repository for technical hacks, howtos, and reminders.
"Now, why didn't you think of that?" --Brini Maxwell