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

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> 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.

Same here.  Turba Pascal & Turbo Vision. Sweeet!

>  <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!

The same guy who helped develope Turbo Pascal & Delphi jumped ship over
to M$ and helped design .Net & C#.  So far in building apps with
Mono/GTK#/Glade# I've been very impressed,  it is very reminiscent of
Turbo Pascal (never used Delphi).

> 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.

Please feel free to contact our education director.