I'm a Smalltalk person, and I've been doing this for a little over 10 years.
I went to Carleton University in what I think of as its glory days, where I studied with the likes of John Pugh, Wilf Lalonde and Dave Thomas. I did both a Bachelor's and a Master's there (computational geometry in Smalltalk/V Mac).
I worked for The Object People for almost 8 years, most recently as the architect (which means not coding much) on the TOPLink family of object-relational mapping products (Smalltalk, Java, Gem Stone). Since the absorption of The Object People, I've left and am now working for Cincom on Visual Works Smalltalk. TOPLink was bought by Web Gain and then picked up by Oracle.
I wrote a column for many years for The Smalltalk Report until its untimely demise. I've also given a presentation called "Secrets of the ENVY Masters" at the ESUG Summer School, Smalltalk Solutions, and at OOPSLA '98.
My e-mail is mailto:knight@acm.org.
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