Francis Hwang

Every time I edit a page here, I try to make Wiki more useful. Sometimes I add words, sometimes I edit words, sometimes I move words, and sometimes I delete words.

If you have a problem with any edit I make, please feel free to speak up about it. Please note that I'm human like everybody else, which means you'll get further with me if you are polite.

I'm a software engineer, artist, and writer who lives in New York City. My day job is at Rhizome (rhizome.org ), where I have discovered that I enjoy fulfilling tech requests from artists and academics far more than I enjoy fulfilling similar requests from marketing execs. Astounding!

My current free software project is the Lafcadio Framework: It's an object-relational mapping framework for use with Ruby Language and My Sql. It's available at lafcadio.rubyforge.org . My current let's-save-New York City-tech-culture project is Ruby New York City, which you can visit at groups.yahoo.com .

If you want to know more than that, you can check out my site at fhwang.net . If you want to ask me, you can email me at mailto:sera@fhwang.net.


You might wish to correct "to her from across the street" to "to hear from across the street" in fhwang.net .

Thanks for the heads-up: I just fixed it.


Pages I'm proud of starting:

Pages I've started that may turn out to be complete poppycock:


Francis, for your refactorings and thoughts on refactoring, Thank You.


Thank you for your Wiki Gnome work today (Sat 2004Mar27); that was badly needed. -- Doug Merritt

Agreed -- Tom Stambaugh


I saw the following reference "Hwang, F. Commando Line Interface. Wired 8, 2 (February 2000), 52" in an article about PSDoom. Is that you?

Yup. That article (minus the screenshot that ran with it in the print version) is at www.wired.com . -- francis


I am looking for a good book (or two or three) to help me get a good foundation in dealing with concurrency in general. I tried to find references to such books in our pages but couldn't find any. Anybody have some pointers for me? -- francis

If you're working in Java Language, or are willing to try to extract general principles from a language-specific book, Doug Lea's Concurrent Programming In Java covers the topic reasonably well. He concentrates on principles and techniques, using Java for the examples. -- Mark Irons


I came to this page to write something like this, and found that it was already here. So I second it. -- Adam Spitz


Francis, for your refactorings and thoughts on refactoring, Thank You.


Hey Francis, is this you: fhwang.net -- Best, Mark Dilley


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