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About Jim

Obviously, my name is Jim. I live in Portland, Oregon with my ~~girlfriend~~ ~~fiancée~~ wife, three dogs, and two cats.

I currently work for CBS Interactive (which came about when they purchased CNET, which purchased the company I originally worked for, TechTracker) as a software engineer. I spend most of my time 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, prior to my current position, I was the senior web developer at 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 FreeBSD Handbook. Some of the info on the Amazon page is incorrect—it was published in early 2000, not 1999, and I was the only editor (Greg Lehey wrote The Complete FreeBSD) . It’s also horribly out-of-date now (though there are newer editions available).

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