SamJansen. Me. I attend to WaikatoUniversity. I used to run DebianLinux on my home computer (along with MicrosoftWindows at times), but I am now a GentooLinux? convert. I do all my programming in Vim; I am a programmer by trade. Programming languages I use, in order of how much I use them include:

• C
• C++
• Python
• Perl
• Java
• Any other random language I don't use much or was forced to learn like Scheme / Haskell / etc.

Note that the above list says little about preference. For example, IHateJava. C++ is generally my language of choice, but I am also a big Python fan.

I spend my time working on my PhD project in the WandGroup working with FreeBSD. These days I'm the TCP expert of the WandGroup. I added the FreeBSD network stack in the NS-2 network simulator as part of my honours project, and I am now continuing this research in my PhD. Information about this project can be found at http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/.

See BungGameEngine for something I've spend quite a bit of my spare coding time on.

Some C/C++ links of note:

• wxWindows (multi platform GUI -- like a much better MFC)
• OpenGL (simple multi platform 3d graphics API)
• SDL or SimpleDirectMediaLayer (decent multi platform DirectX-like library)

Other Wiki links:

• C++Notes

Is mentioned in the long distro wikiword SomePeopleChangeTheirDistributionsAsOftenAsOthersChangeTheirUnderpants :)

Deserves kudos for being the only non-GianPerrone to mention PASL on a Wiki page.

"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognise terrorism if it came up and bit him on his Internet." -- Ross M. Greenberg