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Moving right along with our Developer’s Corner, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview James T. Nixon III, iXsystems’ Webmaster. James was first introduced to Open Source and BSD by his friend from high school, Gary, who handed him a burned disc with the word...
It’s been a while since our last Developer’s Corner. The office is still busy as the year winds down. We recently acquired a few additions to the iXsystems developer team, including Alfred Perlstein, a dedicated FreeBSD committer since 1999. Alfred first familiarized...
Next up in Developer’s Corner, I had the pleasure of corresponding with Dru Lavigne, the Community Manager and Technical Writer here at iXsystems. Dru started out as an entrepreneur (the co-owner of an independent moving company). Once the company was established, she...
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Allen, our Senior Storage Engineer. There’s plenty to talk about regarding his background and what he sees in store for TrueNAS™, iXsystems’ leading storage appliance based on FreeNAS. Peter started off as a Corporate...
It has been a while since our last Developer’s Corner blog post. This month, I had the pleasure of talking with Joseph Atkinson (more commonly known by his online alias, “jsa@”), a recent addition to iXsystems’ team of FreeBSD and FreeNAS developers. Joseph first...
Next up on our list of developers, I had the opportunity to chat with our Senior Software Engineer, FreeNAS developer, and all-around BSD Geek, John Hixson. John has worked on identity management software that tied into multiple systems (such as an ERP system, Active...
Up next in our series, I had the chance to interview Larry Maloney, iXsystems’ new System Administrator and the most recent addition to our team of developers. Larry started programming computers in 1978 and wrote professionally for small companies at the age of 15....
Next up in our Developer’s Corner, I had the opportunity to chat with Kris Moore, founder and lead developer of the PC-BSD operating system, who is located in Maryville, Tennessee. Kris graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with a degree in Business Information...
In our latest instalment of Developer's Corner, I corresponded via email with William Grzybowski, one of our developers hailing all the way from Curitiba, Brazil. William developed an interest in open source even before college. His first job was at his college lab as...
For this edition of the Developer's Corner, we checked in with Garrett Cooper, one of our in-house FreeNAS developers. At iXsystems, Garrett provides tech support for FreeNAS and TrueNAS and works on the build system, installer, and sustaining release engineering. He...
