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About Me

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me. My name is Stephen Crosby and I love to write web applications. These days, I spend most of my time working hard at RightScale, working the kinks out of tough cloud management problems. They call me a software engineer, but I really just like to tinker with code all day. RightScale provides me with a great environment to play with all kinds of new technology in the ever-present world of cloud computing.

I am a huge fan of free software and an Ubuntu evangelist. If you haven't tried Ubuntu, you really should. Go download the live CD and you can give it a shot before you even install it. I've contributed in very small ways to a few free software projects like the Zend Framework, Drupal, WordPress, OpenWRT and uWSGI but I would like to do more in the future.

If you're curious to see what I've been up to, check out my github page: https://github.com/stevecrozz

Places I've Worked

The Fresno Bee
2006-2010
RightScale, Inc
2010-Present

Languages I Use

  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Perl

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  • May 30th 2012 • 02:05
    by Lenny

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    Hey,
    Love your writing. Found you through some OpenWRT stuff, which I dont understand much. I noticed in one of your recent posts that you switched to WordPress from Drupal. I also noticed that you said you were using a stock theme. If you need any support making some design changes, Id be more than happy to help.
    I was wondering if you could direct me in some place to start learning about "software engineering". I use that term lightly, but Im a designer looking to invest some time to becoming proficient at coding with a purpose. Ive spent most of my recent time learning to modify WordPress themes. As a result, I've learned some basic PHP, but nothing too heavy.
    Im wondering how you got to where you are and what you can suggest to an aspiring student.

    • Jun 10th 2012 • 17:06
      by stevecrozz

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      The best way to get started is to find an open source project you like, maybe WordPress for you, and participate. Subscribe to the development mailing lists and hang out in the IRC channels. Most OSS projects are happy to have help, especially writing documentation and triaging bugs. My advice boils down to this, and this is what I myself try to do: find some people who are smarter than you and hang out with them. Just listen to their conversations for a while and before you know it, you'll be right there with them.

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