Songs I love to code to:
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‣Videotape by Radiohead
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‣Warrior’s Dance by Prodigy
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‣Max and Ruby’s opening credits
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What you should know
Name:
Thomas
Occupation:
Senior Software Engineer
hometown:
Paris, France
Sacramento, CA since 2001
favorite time waster:
Geeking it out with my iMac
biggest supporter:
My soulmate of 16 years
growing past time:
My 2 children
will also:
Enjoy good wine with good friends, run, watch HBO
will not:
Get bored, stop buying gadgets, watch reality TV
favorite geeky joke:
"There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't"
A classic tale of an early encounter between a young boy and an (already then) old computer his dad brought back home.
The idea of crafting my own autoexec.bat to bring up a personalized menu, allowing me to choose which program to run was just too exciting to pass up...
Then it was on to get my computer degree back in Paris where I also met my lifetime companion.
First part of career in the mainframe world (IBM 30xx, Natural, DB2, Adabas, CICS, TSO...). In 2001, a long anticipated move to where I’ve always felt I belonged: sunny California!
In 2007, A self-imposed, 6-months-long, after-hours study of the Java language leads me to pass the Sun Certified Java Programmer certificate on my first try. Got re-assigned within my company to work on more Linux-based web projects. Loving it.
Then, over 20 years after it all began (holy crap), got my first Mac. A revelation. Wondering how I’ve been able to live all these years without a UNIX-based machine to play with... ;)
My son’s latest pics
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