Current Address: 399 Sunnyside Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 0S3 Email: user cejaekl site yahoo.com

You're welcome to poke around in my Git repository. Here are a few projects that people may find useful:

• QuanLib, an eBook catalogue (Ruby / Golang / JavaScript, 2017)
• Squelch, a basic console-based JDBC client (Java, 2016)
• Comparative FindBugs (CFB), a mechanism to identify new FindBugs warnings added between builds (Java, 2015-2016)
• Frank, a Java servlet that queries the OC Transpo public data API (Java, 2014-2015)
• fwd, a tiny user-space TCP port forwarder (C, 2015)

I've been in the business of developing software since before the .com bubble burst, and have worked with:

• C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python and some Assembler, Groovy, Perl, shell scripts, et cetera
• Several web front-end frameworks, including GWT, JSF/PrimeFaces, and internal ones that you won't have heard of
• MS-Windows 3.x/95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2012/8.1/10 (MFC and Windows SDK)
• Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and many other variants of Unix
• other operating systems, including Android, MS-DOS, TOS/GEM, VMS, HP-MPE/XL, AmigaDos
• multithreaded systems, barcodes, 3D graphics, data visualization, full-text information search and retrieval, relational databases
• computer security, encryption, authentication and network administration

My curriculum vitae and a list of references are available upon request.

I'm an alumnus of the Shad Valley Programme at Acadia University and, since 1996, I've been fortunate to have the chance to attend a number of Shad Programmes to give a little bit back to the system. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I feel that I come away with much more than I give. :) In case anyone's keeping score, here's the tally so far:

• Acadia University (Wolfville, NS, CA)
  • Programme Assistant, 1996, 1997, and 1998
  • Programme Manager, 1999
• University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
  • Programme Assistant, 2000
• Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, CA)
  • Guest speaker, 2001 and 2002

The stuff I end up talking about comes from a few good books, and a general store of experience with the ups and downs of life, the computer business, et cetera. I wrote up a reading list back in 1997, which I've pulled back from extinction courtesy of the Internet Archive's Web Wayback Machine.

In 1993-1995, I taught Computer Science (as a Teaching Assistant) at the University of Toronto. In 1998, I spent some time delivering C/C++ 3D graphics programming training using what was then Visible Decisions, Inc.'s In3D class libraries. Some years later, I exorcised my didactic urges by advising network, system and database administrators how to plan, configure and administer web-based knowledge management software.

I enjoy seeing different places, seeing how other people live, hearing other's perspectives, and generally getting away from it all. In the summer of 1998, I took a few months off and drove to three corners of North America. You can read about that trip here.

Between August 2000 and February 2003, I had a job that involved a fair degree of travel, boarding a plane or intercity train on average once every 4 days. I kept an online Chris Jaekl locator to allow people to track my travels.

You can find my Masters' Thesis here. Don't laugh--bits of the material described therein have found a practical application in JProbe Threadalyzer, a commercial thread-analysis tool, and I cherish the hope that someone else might also want to read it <grin>.