A Day in the Life | Linux Today

A Day in the Life

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 28, 2008

[ Thanks to Hans
Bezemer
for this link. ]

“You know what the difference is between a professional blogger
and amateurs like us? They write about the community and we are the
community. We can write about things they will never be able to
cover properly: our own experiences. A view from the inside.
Usually, it doesn’t take too much effort to write a blog entry like
this, because I love writing about what I do.

“I’m the proud maintainer of the 4tH compiler, which I designed
almost fifteen years ago. I became part of the community when I
decided to release it as Open Source. At that moment I realized
that the Internet had changed the world of software development and
shareware was simply ‘not done’ anymore. A few years later, I
switched from MS-DOS to Linux. I had never really liked
MS-Windows…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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