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About Jim

Obviously, my name is Jim. I live in Portland, Oregon with my girlfriend fiancée wife, three dogs, two cats, and twin sons. I’m currently the Web Development Manager at onOne Software. I also do freelance work through Three Dogs Media.

Prior to working at onOne, I was a software engineer at CBS Interactive (which came about when they purchased CNET, which purchased the company I originally worked for, TechTracker). Most of my time at CBS was spent working on the VersionTracker, iPhone Atlas, and MacFixIt web sites.

In the past I’ve worked for Walnut Creek CDROM (which later became BSDi), OSDN, and Hollywood Entertainment (now Movie Gallery) where I was responsible for the Hollywood Video, Game Crazy, and Movie Gallery sites.

During my time at Walnut Creek CDROM and BSDi, I was involved in planning and running our yearly conference. The first was FreeBSDCon in 1999, which was the first conference dedicated to the FreeBSD operating system. In 2000, we changed the name to BSDCon and included the other BSD OSes (NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Darwin and Mac OS X), and I was responsible for planning and organizing the scheduled talks and papers. It was great working with all of the speakers, and the conference was a huge success.

With the demise of BSDi in 2001, USENIX took over the conference. I was asked to be on the planning committee due to my role in the first two, and I gladly accepted. BSDCon 2002, the last I was involved with, happened in February of 2002 in San Francisco.

From early 1999 through 2001, I ran The FreeBSD ‘zine, an online magazine for FreeBSD users. The site is no longer online, and the domain name now points to a porn site, however, if there is a particular article that you want, let me know and I’ll see if I can dig it up.

I was also the editor for the first edition of the The FreeBSD Handbook, which was published in the spring of 2000 (not February 1999 as Amazon says). Though it’s horribly out-of-date now, there are newer editions available.

I also served as a member of the MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) Port Manager team from 2002-2005.

Publications

• The FreeBSD Handbook, 1st Edition – BSDi, April 2000 (ISBN #1571762418)
• Setting Up An Apache Web Server – The FreeBSD ‘zine, January 1999
• Stopping Spam With Sendmail – The FreeBSD ‘zine, January 1999
• Virtual Hosting With Apache – The FreeBSD ‘zine, February 1999
• Creating A FreeBSD Port – The FreeBSD ‘zine, March 1999
• Using SSH Instead Of Telnet – The FreeBSD ‘zine, March 1999
• Virtual Hosting With Sendmail – The FreeBSD ‘zine, April 1999
• Using Window Maker – The FreeBSD ‘zine, April 1999
• Advocating FreeBSD – The FreeBSD ‘zine, March 2000
• USB Floppy Drives – The FreeBSD ‘zine, May 2000
• Notes From LinuxWorld – The FreeBSD ‘zine, August 2000
• SMTP Over An SSH Tunnel – The FreeBSD ‘zine, April 2001
• Using Mutt – The FreeBSD ‘zine, May 2001
• Easily Installing Unix Applications on Mac OS X – BSDnews, April 2003
• Stopping Spam with SpamProbe – BSDnews, September 2003