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me Could you please introduce yourself : name, age, place where you live, What is your principal work/occupation in life ?
Wevah My name is Nate Weaver, a.k.a. Wevah. I'm 25 years old, and live in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA. My principal work is mostly sitting around writing code, though I don't get paid enough... ;)
me Is your day job mac related too ?
Wevah I don't really have a day job at the moment; I'm trying to find my place (and my motivation), unfortunately. Fortunately, I'm much more motivated than I was a few years (or even a few months) ago.
me What is your development setup ?
Wevah A MacBook Pro (early rev) with a 100 GB/7200 RPM HD and 2 GB of RAM. Oh, and the 256 MB video card (which is currently standard, IIRC).
me How long have you been haging on #Camino and contributing patches ?
Wevah I always forget this. I think my IRC logs started in August of 2004.
me And your first patch ?
Wevah Customized .webloc file handling, I think. Oh, and IE .url files too.
me Are you specilized in some part of Camino or do you contribute anywhere ?
Wevah I like to do stuff that I can do without having to build Camino, though will most likely change eventually. Stuff like the webloc patch where I can test the majority of the code in a small test application. Oh, and I also help administrate the caminobrowser.org Web site.
me Do you also play with the rest of the mozilla code ?
Wevah No; it scares me. I still don't have a good grasp of C++, yet. I'd like to get there eventually, of course, but I'm having a much better time in Objective-C Land. :)
me Do you participate to other projects be they open source or not ? if yes care to tell us which ones ?
Wevah Sure. I have a few of my own projects (as many people do), the two public ones are Paparazzi! and a User Agent prefpane for Camino. I also will be contributing some code to the now-open source CamiTools project (as you can see, a lot of Camino-related stuff). I also contribute bug reports/help for various other things, though I haven't submitted many (if any) patches to them.
me Urls ? (I'm a lazy guy)
Wevah Paparazzi!'s is http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/, and User Agent's is http://www.derailer.org/useragent/. CamiTools has a new home at http://camitools.mozdev.org/, though the current binary isn't there yet (it's at http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/camitools/ for now).
me How long have you been using Macs ? What is the oldest version of Mac OS you've been using ? What was your first computer ?
Wevah I've been using Macs since, uh...I don't remember. I think I've used System 4 before, though only for a very short time (and not on my own machine). The first Mac OS I really remember was System 6. The first Mac I used regularly was a family computer; a Macintosh IIvx with 10 MB of RAM and an 80 MB hard disk (oh, how far we've come since then). The first Mac that was mine and mine alone was a "Wallstreet" Powerbook, running at a whopping 266 MHz with 1
Wevah (I'm surprised that I can remember all of that.)
me My crapy IRC client cut your sentence at running at a whopping 266 MHz with 1
me care to repast the end of the sentences ?
Wevah ...with 192 megs of RAM and a 4 gig hard disk.
Wevah Colloquy is lame and doesn't chop long messages up. (The IRC spec says they cut off at 500 bytes or something.)
me Was it difficult to join the Camino developers team ?
Wevah Not really; the only real issue was my own fear of seeming like an idiot or a blowhard (which I guess I don't, thank goodness).
me How time eating is it to manage caminobrowser.org ?
Wevah Well, since I don't have to do any content or layout, it's not that difficult at the moment. The main things I have to worry about are the user agent detection script (which is being rewritten), the JavaScript image swapper deal, and the contributors' blogs feed (all of which I wrote). Oh, and the redirects for new releases. Sam's a lot more responsible than I am about a lot of it, though. ;)
me Ok, Anything you would like to add , say ?
Wevah I can't think of anything funny or informative, to be honest. But uh...CAMIMO R00LZ!
me thank you for your time
Wevah My pleasure. :)