[KLUG Members] Shameless self-promotion by a new KLUG subscriber

[hamptone]

Hey KLUGGERs,

I'm the former president of MDLUG  in Detroit.  About a year ago I moved 
to Lansing and kind of dropped off the LUG radar since I had a lot of 
things going on with my career and family.  It's been a while but I've 
decided to give LUGs another try.  I've also revived my linux consulting 
business.

Right now I'm in San Jose for Borcon 2004.  BorCon has been a huge 
experience for me. I cut my teeth writing Pascal using Borland's Turbo 
Pascal. <http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,20803,00.html> Now, you 
can get that compiler and a few others that Borland has donated to the 
community via their software museum. I encourage you to check it out. In 
the interim, if anyone wants JBuilder, Delphi, Optimizeit, StarTeam, 
Together, InterBase, etc. contact me ASAP. I can purchase the software 
for you at discount.   This is a first come first serve offer, since I 
only get 4 products at these outrageous prices!

I have just passed the StarTeam 6 <http://www.borland.com/starteam/> 
certification exam and have learned a considerable amount about the 
StarTeam SDK. For those of you who don't know what StarTeam is, it is a 
version control system on steroids with integrated change control 
management, tasks, topics, and considerable scalability. StarTeam server 
runs on Solaris and windows (of course) but they've got a cross platform 
client that works on linux and informally, the people in product 
development tell me that they are considering dropping Solaris and going 
to Linux.  I pushed for Suse since Redhat left a bad taste in my mouth 
when they dropped support for Redhat 8.0 and 9.0 and went enterprise on us.

I have also recently passed the first half of the Linux Profession 
Institute Level 1 <https://www.lpi.org/en/why_lpi.html> exam. By the end 
of October, I will be taking the 2nd exam and will be linux certified. 
Right now, co-workers are describing me as "certifiable."  ;-)  Anyway, 
I saw that KLUG is considering doing some LPI training and thought that 
I might have some things to share if anyone wants to contact me about 
the first test and how I studied for it.

Finally, I'd like to do some plugging for my own web site.  I've been 
trying to clean up my bookmarks on a LOT of different platforms and 
consolidate them in one place, so the best of them are ending up on my 
web site <http://www.hamptonandassociates.net/nuke/html/links.php> .  I 
am certain that if you take the time to browse through them you will 
find something of interest.  I plan to add more daily.  

Looking forward to some stimulating linux conversations!




Rodney Hampton
http://www.hamptonandassociates.net