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Rick is a software developer for the Soil Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, as well as free-lance writer (he was New & Noteworthy Editor for the award-winning magazine Software Development until its sad demise). His coworkers think that he's been sitting in front of his monitor a little too long. If you have a finer anagram for his (full) name than "AN IRON-JAWED WRECK AND FIERY RUDE", he'd love to hear about it. |
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You can reach him via email: fewayne (at) wisc.edu, or call 608-265-3288. Click here for his résumé. And this is his Geek Code...
Rick graduated from Indiana University in 1981 with a double major in biology and journalism. In his very last semester there, he took an introductory programming course and was hooked, but his diploma had already been printed and they wouldn't let him change majors again.
He worked as an advertising copywriter for a scientific instrument company for a few years, slid sideways into computers there, took a few years of computer science at UW-Madison and has been hacking happily away ever since.
He's written system support code for Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy instrumentation, worked as a system administrator, written video device drivers for CAD software, and written communications administrative software for UW Extension. At Soils, he's writing Java, Ruby, C, XML/XSL, and RMI code for things like agricultural decision support and weather data publishing, managing some Mac OS X and Linux boxes, and in general is worried that someone will notice how much fun he's been having. He was also New and Noteworthy Editor for Software Development magazine, writing the eponymous column, feature articles and product reviews.
He lives in Madison with his wife, kids, and cats. When he's not
programming, reading, or
writing, he's probably shooting photographs
or doing his bit with the Devil's
Head Ski Patrol .
Rick did not follow his photojournalism degree into media work, preferring science, writing, and (for the past couple decades) software development. He is, however, a fairly avid amateur photographer, and does the occasional paid gig. You can see his work on his photo hosting site, or order prints (should you be so inclined) from Red Wolf Photography, his store on Etsy.com.
A Windows startup/shutdown sound randomizer (complete with sounds!)
Various jokes, clips, photos, and memes
An SD item on Wireless Powerline Ethernet
Who said that? Three interesting quotes with attributions
UW Extension Ag Weather
Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast
SnapPlus Nutrient Management Software
WISP, the Wisconsin Irrigation Scheduling Program
Near-IR Aerial
Photos of Crop Fields
Environmental Management
Systems prototype software
Martha's
Home Page
AWS
Reporting
Data
streams for our Wisconsin/Minnesota Extension projects
Web
Access to AWS data
Day-Of-Year
Calendar
DECTalk Voice
Synthesizer Projects
Cranberry
Observed Data Entry page
Soil
Science home page
WI/MN extension
stuff
the Rain Sniffer
Shift-click here to download X-win32;
the serial number is 8d487bb4839535ce. Note that this is only good
for use in the soil sciences building, this key will not work
elsewhere on the internet so don't bother trying.
To strip CRs out of a file:
tr --delete
'\015' < filename
Geek Code (revised Aug 2009)
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