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2013-04-30

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    <h3>External Links</h3>

    <ul>

        <li><a class="zocial-googleplus" href="https://plus.google.com/117097409595871683738"><span>Google+</span></a></li>

        <li><a class="zocial-facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/TScottBarnes"><span>Facebook</span></a></li>

        <li><a class="zocial-linkedin" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tsbarnes"><span>LinkedIn</span></a></li>

        <li><a class="zocial-twitter" href="http://twitter.com/tscottbarnes"><span>Twitter</span></a></li>

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    <h3>About Me</h3>

    <h4>Professional Info</h4>

    <p>

        I'm a software/Web developer with almost 20 years of experience in

        the open source community. Currently I'm doing freelance work, and

        have my own startup company, <a href="http://llc.no-dice.net/">No

        Dice</a>. My company's first product is

        <a href="https://no-dice.net/">No-Dice.Net</a>, a web platform for

        tabletop games.

    </p>

    <p>

        I've been working with <a href="http://opensource.org/">open source

        software</a> since around 1995, when I first installed

        <a href="http://slackware.com/">Slackware</a> on my computer after

        getting tired of the constant issues

        <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95">Windows 95</a>

        would have. Having used

        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29">

        Solaris</a> at a friend's house (his father used it for work), I

        decided to look for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like">

        Unix-like</a> I could run. I stumbled across

        <a href="http://slackware.com/">Slackware</a>, and have used

        <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</a> as my primary

        operating system ever since. I still try out other OSes, it's a hobby

        of mine.

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    <p>

        After using <a href="http://slackware.com/">Slackware</a> for about a

        week I decided I wanted to contribute something back, and started

        learning all I could about programming and package management

        solutions. Having had experience with

        <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29">C</a>

        in school (which I later learned was unusual, as most schools

        jump from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC">BASIC</a> to

        <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B">C++</a>), I started

        coding an improved yet backward-compatible

        <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/slaktool/">package manager</a>

        for <a href="http://slackware.com/">Slackware</a>. It never made it

        in to <a href="http://slackware.com/">Slackware</a> officially, but it

        was a good start.

    </p>

    <p>

        I've loved programming since playing with

        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29">Logo</a>

        as a kid, and open source work meant I could use it for something that

        would actually help people. So I've tried to contribute back to most of the open

        source projects I use, as well as creating open source projects of

        my own.

    </p>

    <p>

        In the past five years or so I've grown very fond of working with

        <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a>, as well as being a strong

        advocate of <a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/">HTML5 and CSS3</a>. I've

        always been meticulous about standards compliance and following best

        practices for coding, and that has led me to love working with

        <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> in general, and with web

        design/development.

    </p>

    <p>

        I can't wait to see how technology grows and evolves in the future,

        and you can bet I'll be learning as much of it as I can.

    </p>

    <hr>

    <h4>Personal Info</h4>

    <p>

        I am happily married, and have been for almost two and a half years.

        In August I'm going to have a son!

    </p>

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    <h3>Contact Info</h3>

    <strong class="fontawesome-envelope"> Email:</strong>

    <address>

        <dl>

            <dt>Main:</dt>

            <dd><a href="mailto:barnes.t.scott@gmail.com">barnes.t.scott@gmail.com</a></dd>

            <dt>Personal:</dt>

            <dd><a href="mailto:tsbarnes@tsbarnes.com">tsbarnes@tsbarnes.com</a></dd>

            <dt>School:</dt>

            <dd><a href="mailto:tbarnes0037@email.vccs.edu">tbarnes0037@email.vccs.edu</a></dd>

            <dt>Company:</dt>

            <dd><a href="mailto:tsbarnes@no-dice.net">tsbarnes@no-dice.net</a></dd>

        </dl>

    </address>

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    <h3>Social Widgets</h3>

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