About

I was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and now live in a small farming village in Lower Austria. I am married with 3 adult daughters and 2 granddaughters.

Professionally, I am an independent software developer. I have been involved in one aspect or another of software development since 1966. After a stint as a civil servant with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. General Servicees Administration, I moved to private industry and started developing software in 1966. I’ve never looked back, I love the industry. I currently develop in Java, but my background encompasses C, Delphi (Object Pascal) and assembler development. I’m now moving into web development, mainly using PHP and Ruby on Rails.

When not in front of the monitor I can be found with my wife (also a software developer and amateur photographer), with camera slung over shoulder and tripod in hand looking for something at which to point the camera. Beyond that, we both enjoy cycling (and, when in shape, running) and reading just about anything that someone has seen fit to print.

Once upon a time, I was a long-distance runner. For the past few years I have been carrying too much weight to pursue that interest, but I am in the process of getting down to “fighting weight”.

I am not in any way, shape or form associated with the radio show “The Jersey Guys” in Trenton, New Jersey. Not in any way. No, non, nein, nyet!

R.

4 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 December 4

    Austria!!! Here I thought I was writing to a Jersey guy, a guy who lives in Jersey, now! How fun now that I know.

  2. 2008 January 22

    I like your pictures and thought you might be also interested in visiting my photo blog with one new picture every day:

    http://kedarphotography.wordpress.com/

    Kedar, Zurich

  3. 2008 February 29

    :)

  4. 2008 September 18

    Hi there, I saw that you have a link to This Is What Women Want. My name is Meredith; I’m currently interning with the team behind the project. I’m so happy that you’re interested in our efforts. Right now, we’re organizing speakouts across the country for women to express what they want to see in the upcoming election. It’s our opportunity to speak for ourselves rather than being talked about. I was wondering if you would consider placing our banner on your blog for the duration of the election season. You can find the badges here in a variety of shapes and colors – http://thisiswhatwomenwant.com/onyoursite/
    Thanks for your support! Your contribution is much appreciated.
    -Meredith

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