My principal focus is maintaining the GraphicsMagick image processing package. This seems to consume every free cycle of available time. Check out the Magick++ C++ API I developed which provides a powerful programming interface to GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick. Long ago I developed the WebMagick software package which helps put images of all kinds on the Web, and was based on ImageMagick’s PerlMagick. I also assist with maintenance of libtiff and libpng, and used to assist with GNU libtool and IJG libjpeg.

My GPG public key may be used to verify release files signed by me, or to send me private correspondence.

I am now comfortably retired. Prior to retirement, I worked for 14 years at BE Networks (previously known as “BeyondEdge Networks” and “iPhotonix”), a network technology company offering advanced Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Gigabit Optical Network Terminal (ONT) products.

There is also a light-hearted overview of my professional career to date.

About Me

I have been published! I have written a number of articles for Magazine including the April '95 (Volume 20 Number 4) article entitled Building Your Own WWW Server, the November '96 (Volume 21 Number 11) article on WebNFS: A File System for the Web , the April '97 (Volume 22 Number 4) article entitled "Expect Offers Unix Scripting", the November '97 (Volume 22 Number 11) article entitled "Autoconf Makes for Portable Software", the February '98 (Volume 23 Number 2) article entitled "Writing JavaScript Applications " and the July '98 (Volume 23 Number 7) article entitled “Real Time Goes Mainstream” regarding the POSIX Real-Time APIs. Unfortunately, BYTE was purchased from McGraw Hill by CMP, all staffers were immediately fired, and the magazine was discontinued as of the July '98 issue. Unfortunately, now byte.com content is gone entirely. The article on Web servers was one of the first articles in a major magazine to introduce the term "Intranet" and to recognize its importance. Given that the article was actually written in mid '94, maybe someone should give me a medal or something. :-)

I served as an expert reviewer for the late W. Richard Stevens' Unix Network Programming Volumes I and II as well as for several other fine books. W. Richard Stevens will always be remembered for his selfless contributions to Unix programmers and his willingness to respond immediately to almost any question.

Vital Statistics

My hobbies are developing GraphicsMagick, shooting my air rifles, programming in C, C++, and PERL, exploring UNIX, searching for the software flywheel , driving my 2019 Jeep Wrangler and selling my '91 Toyota MR-2). I enjoy the outdoors, and walk many miles a day. Since 2017 we have a second home high-up in the mountains of Arizona, so while I am there, I get to hike on real hiking trails.

Currently my mail server (hosting simple.dallas.tx.us, simplesystems.org, and graphicsmagick.org email) is down and I have not yet found the time and energy to reconstruct it. The DNS registrations remain intact so that a new mail server can be created. In the mean-time I am using gmail.com for email.