[UPHPU] Introduction

[Aaron Toponce]

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Wayne Jensen wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote: I just
> joined the group and thought I would send an email introducing
> myself.
>
> As you can see from my signature, my name is Aaron Toponce.  I am
> the Ogden Area Linux Users Group President, and a member of the
> Ubuntu-Utah team.  I am a heavy Ubuntu advocate, and try to spread
> the good word wherever I can.  I've been using Linux since late
> '99, and Ubuntu since Warty Warthog 4.10 was released (Oct 2004).
> I am a FOSS purist, and refuse to use proprietary
> software/protocols in my personal life.
>
> I am a heavy advocate of security and encryption protocols and
> applications, specifically using GPG.  I digitally sign all my
> emails, even to friends and family (if it isn't signed, it didn't
> come from me).  I use Tor, SSL, TLS and other tools wherever I can.
> :)
>
> I am not new to PHP, but I am not skilled in the language.  I've
> done some modest projects here and there, mainly just tinkering.  I
> am hoping to better my PHP skills by hanging out on the mailing
> list, and going to the meets.  But I am fairly confident in my
> skills as a C/C++, (X)HTML, CSS, SQL and Bash.  I know Perl fairly
> well, and I am just getting into Python.  So, I guess I'm a noob
> when it comes to programming! :)
>
> What else?  I'm married with no kids and two dogs.  I work for a
> company called Venture Data where we do political research surveys.
> I am on the programming/sample team where I spend a great deal of
> time programming the surveys, and setting up a sampling of
> demographic numbers to dial.  We use a proprietary language called
> CfMC for most of our work.  In fact, as I am typing this, I am
> working on a PHP web page designed to replace the current process
> on how we setup dial-able sample.  We also use QuickBasic, Bash,
> csh, sh and Perl.
>
> Anyway, there's a little about me.
>

> Hi Aaron.  I too am fairly new to the group (just lurking on the
> mailing list because I live too far away to attend the meetings),
> and I too work in market research using CfMC (as well as other CATI
>  packages).  I've been using PHP for 5 or 6 years now, mostly for
> CATI-related tasks (reporting, sample formatting, etc), quite a bit
>  for information infrastructure, and a little bit for internet.
> Sadly I've done very little CATI programming since opening a phone
> center with some partners and being consumed by managing it, but
> I'm in the process of writing a series of very small PHP scripts to
> replace myself ;) so I can get out of this small town and get back
> to programming full time (although preferably far, far away from
> the market research industry).

> I'm also working on adapting Gnudialer to work with CfMC, but I
> don't have much free time to work on that project and haven't made
> it very far.

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Who do you work for?  Just curious.

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Aaron Toponce - http://www.pthree.org
OALUG President - http://www.oalug.com
Ubuntu-Utah Member - http://www.ubuntu-utah.org
Ubuntu Archiver - http://doc.gwos.org
Ubuntu Advocate - http://www.ubuntu.com
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