TheChad08

• Write point-of-sale and back-end accounting applications for financial services company using Perl and MS-SQL
• Experience with police/FBI reporting for pawn stores, ATF regulations for gun sales, and ACH integration

• Contracted to redesign, rewrite and deploy portions of golf-related website
• Developed threaded socket server to communicate with Verifone POS terminals Implemented server-side message handlers based on predefined protocols
• Introduced CVS for source code control
• Compiled and installed MySQL/Apache/PHP on Debian and RedHat servers
• Implemented wikiweb (TWiki), used extensively for online documentation
• Typical sysadmin duties, including tape backups, server installs, user mail, Windows integration, etc.

• Maintained DNS for several hundred domains using Perl scripts
• Wrote Perl scripts to generate custom Apache configuration for several hundred domains running on remote webservers
• Wrote front-end scripts in Perl and PHP for database data-entry, server-side scripts in Perl to generate websites from templates and data
• Compiled/installed Linux kernels, Apache, PHP, etc.
• Replaced SonicWall firewall with Linux/iptables
• Installed LDAP; migrated existing users
• Typical sysadmin duties, including tape backups, server installs, user mail, Windows integration, etc.

• Migrated existing Perl CGI scripts to OO-compliant modules in support of mod_perl conversion
• Led migration of Perl codebase from CVS to BitKeeper
• Acted as primary support programmer, for existing 400,000-line Perl codebase
• Led migration of support tracking to Bugzilla
• Interfaced payment systems with PayPal and Revecom (Paysystems), using Perl
• Developed cost-based ROI tracking

• Developed a secure, SOAP-based API for remote system administration in Perl using SSL over HTTP on a hardened Redhat Linux
• Developed a modular GUI framework and subsequent web-based client in Perl based upon the SOAP API
• Served as buildmaster; led migration of codebase from CVS to BitKeeper
• Built RPMs for Perl Modules from in-house and third-party code for public release
• Managed development process from requirements to 'gold' manufacturing release

• Responsible for developing, operating and maintaining all email services for a registered user base of 100,000 individuals, using Perl
• Managed bulletin boards, written in Perl
• Performed sysadmin tasks and systems support for five high-end servers
• Modified GPL C code as required for improving systems functionality

• Developed interactive corporate Internet/intranet web site using PHP with MySQL and Apache running under Red Hat Linux
• Created forms to allow employees to update web site information without editing HTML
• Made modifications to 3rd-party website hosted by Dynacare
• Developed forms and templates using PHP and custom graphics using the GIMP

• Linux system administrator for departmental Apache web server
• Authored and maintained intranet site using PHP and MySQL on Slackware and Red Hat distributions
• Installed and upgraded Apache, Perl, Samba, MySQL, and PHP
• Familiar with standard GNU utilities, X11, networking, firewalls
• Managed local and national development teams developing desktop and distributed applications using Delphi and HL7
• Provided support to Y2K / IV&V group

• System administrator for Linux and Windows NT servers
• Designed NT-based intranet
• Trained users in web design and maintenance using FrontPage and related technologies
• Adapted laboratory instrument interface specs for use on intranet
• Maintained existing laboratory systems
• Developed instrument interfaces
• Trained users in device troubleshooting techniques
• Developed system utilities
• Designed and implemented device management system

• Technical Lead for Delphi development project to replace and augment legacy MUMPS-based HIS systems with client/server Primary Care application
• Experienced with Borland Delphi V 1.0 - 4.0, MUMPS, HTML, Windows API

• Responsible for 24x7 hospital data center including VMS and DSM systems, VMS clusters, DSM installation and configuration, application and IDE upgrades, VMS upgrades and performance tuning, and PathWORKS LAN
• Developed numerous time-saving automated systems for multiple environments
• Gained proficiency in VMS, DCL, MUMPS. POSIX, Clustering, DECnet, PathWORKS, TCP/IP (UCX)

• Software Developer - Developed integrated software interface to automated pharmaceutical equipment
• Distributed and supported software nationally
• Computer Mechanic - Responsible for rewiring datacenter, PC hardware installation, troubleshooting and maintenance

• Assigned to Command Headquarters
• Developed software to monitor mainframe system performance
• Created graphics display systems for reporting to senior command staff
• Interfaced mainframe and PC networks in support of ARPANET using Z80 and TOPS-20 assembler
• Trained users and technical staff

Nietzsche makes me think more of Batman than Superman...pushing yourself to live every day as the best you can be, to your limit, to give your life meaning...definitely Batman ;P

To reiterate:

Night 1 ends Friday 8/10 at 10PM central time!

Spoiler for who knew there were so many? (besides Google of course... )

http://www.rinkworks...ontronyms.shtml
anabasis - military advance, military retreat
apology - admission of fault in what you think, say, or do; formal defense of what you think, say, or do aught - all, nothing
bolt - secure, run away
by - multiplication (e.g., a three by five matrix), division (e.g., dividing eight by four)
chuffed - pleased, annoyed
cleave - separate, adhere
clip - fasten, detach
consult - ask for advice, give advice
copemate - partner, antagonist
custom - usual, special
deceptively smart - smarter than one appears, dumber than one appears
dike - wall, ditch
discursive - proceeding coherently from topic to topic, moving aimlessly from topic to topic
dollop - a large amount, a small amount
dust - add fine particles, remove fine particles
enjoin - prescribe, prohibit
fast - quick, unmoving
first degree - most severe (e.g., murder), least severe (e.g., burn)
fix - restore, castrate
flog - criticize harshly, promote aggressively
garnish - enhance (e.g., food), curtail (e.g., wages)
give out - produce, stop production
grade - incline, level
handicap - advantage, disadvantage
help - assist, prevent (e.g., "I can't help it if...")
left - remaining, departed from
liege - sovereign lord, loyal subject
mean - average, excellent (e.g., "plays a mean game")
off - off, on (e.g., "the alarm went off") out - visible (e.g., stars), invisible (e.g., lights)
out of - outside, inside (e.g., "work out of one's home")
oversight - error, care
pitted - with the pit in, with the pit removed
put out - extinguish, generate (e.g., something putting out light)
quiddity - essence, trifling point
quite - rather, completely
ravel - tangle, disentangle
rent - buy use of, sell use of
rinky-dink - insignificant, one who frequents RinkWorks
sanction - approve, boycott
sanguine - hopeful, murderous (obsolete synonym for "sanguinary")
screen - show, hide
seed - add seeds (e.g., "to seed a field"), remove seeds (e.g., "to seed a tomato")
skinned - with the skin on, with the skin removed
strike - hit, miss (in baseball)
table - propose (in the United Kingdom), set aside (in the United States)
transparent - invisible, obvious
unbending - rigid, relaxing
variety - one type (e.g., "this variety"), many types (e.g., "a variety")
wear - endure through use, decay through use
weather - withstand, wear away
wind up - end, start up (e.g., a watch)
with - alongside, against

Here's another:
I predict that Tony Dungy will weigh his options for another year with the Colts and finally decide to resign.
Will he re-up for another season, or will he quit?

A hundred feet in the air, but its back is on the ground. What is it?