Submitted by andyr on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 11:44
Personal Details
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Name : |
RUDDOCK, Andrew Paul |
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Tel : |
+44 (0)117 3736375 |
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102 Grittleton Road Bristol BS7 0XB United Kingdom |
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Mobile : |
+44 (0)7786 848282 |
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Married |
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Children : |
2 |
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andy.ruddock@rainydayz.org |
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Executive Summary
I am an experienced software engineer who, over a career currently spanning more than two decades, has a record of consistently delivering highly technical solutions on a number of platforms using a wide range of tools. I have demonstrated an ability to learn new skills and develop and adapt existing skills in order to maintain a position at the forefront of the field as it has grown. Cross-platform development has taught me pragmatism and the importance of taking the wider view.
I have shown an ability to effectively communicate both on a technical level with other engineers and on a higher level with customers and product end-users. I continue to demonstrate enthusiasm for the opportunities offered by this exciting field.
I am seeking a senior development role, ideally under Linux, with the opportunity to move into project management.
Submitted by andyr on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 11:41
My documents are available in a number of formats for your convenience, please use the links below to download or view those documents which are of special interest.
Please note that text documents are stored with UTF-8 encoding to preserve the Norwegian character set.
Curriculum Vitae
My curriculum vitae can be downloaded using one of the following links :
Submitted by rainydayz on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 10:42
In the queue at Tesco, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have the "green thing" back in my day."
The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation never cared enough to save our environment."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day......or....?
Submitted by andyr on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 19:18
Kjære alle sammen,
For et syn!
Jeg står nå ansikt til ansikt med folkeviljen.
Dere er folkeviljen.
Tusener på tusener av nordmenn, i Oslo og over hele landet, gjør det samme i kveld.
Erobrer gatene, torgene – det offentlige rom med samme trassige budskap:
Vi er sønderknust, men vi gir oss ikke.
Med fakler og roser gir vi verden beskjed.
Vi lar ikke frykten knekke oss.
Og vi lar ikke frykten for frykt kneble oss.-
Submitted by andyr on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 19:14
Sandy Smith - Reproduced from The Transverse Myelitis Association Journal
Having had TM for almost 22 years, I still find it very difficult to accept what happened to me 6 months ago. I feel as though I experienced a miracle. I hope that my story will give hope to other TM sufferers.
Submitted by andyr on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 19:12
Courtesy of Douglas Adams
A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve. It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change.
Submitted by rainydayz on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:40
Everything was rather quiet in the hundred acre wood. The trees whispered to each other as the wind rustled their leaves. Under a large oak tree, there lived Pooh bear. From inside Pooh's house, there came a steady bang...bang... bang!, that was making his honey jars rattle on the sideboard. The light came through the window, and in the evening sun Pooh raised the axe once more and brought it down on the tattered remains of Christopher Robin.
"Why...won't... he...fit..." puffed Pooh to himself as the axe came down once more.
Submitted by andyr on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 10:12
I've previously documented the process "Building Enigmail for SeaMonkey in Ubuntu 8.10" and the problems which I had to solve to get a working system.
I then went on to build an AMD64 build of the Enigmail plugin as I'm using the AMD64 install of Ubuntu 8.10. And, of course, I started off by following my earlier recipe to build the i686 32-bit version.
This went well, until I installed Enigmail, where I encountered an error that indicated the enigmime modules was unavailable.
Submitted by andyr on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 10:11
I like SeaMonkey - I've used it for years (since the days of Netscape Communicator), but I also like using GnuPG signing and encryption of my mail. There's no enigmail package for Ubuntu 8.10 so I had to go and roll my own.
Here's the procedure I followed to build my own Enigmail package for Ubuntu :
Submitted by andyr on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 10:09
I like the Mozilla suite but missed having a working EnigMail. As I'm running Debian on an AMD64 and there's no working EnigMail for i386 I figured I had a snowball's chance in hell.
I tried working from the Debian packages for IceDove and from the packages from the previous release for Mozilla-EnigMail without success.
I then found a link to a page with info on how to achieve this, so I've reproduced it here along with downloadable configuration files and an installable .XPI for Debian Etch AMD64.
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