LinksAbout me
| Name | David Morris |
| Born | 30th April, 1963 |
| Life | Born, bred and educated and working in Sheffield. Currently living just over the county border in NE Derbyshire. |
| Family | Married to Caroline, one son - Daniel |
| Employement | European IT Manager, ATI Allvac Ltd (part of Allegheny Technologies) |
| Interests | Brass Bands, most things IT related (yeah - busman's holiday - I know), music in general, radio-control boats |
Blog
My blog is here. I've recently moved over to using WordPress so I'm still finding out what I can and can't do. It's a voyage of discovery for me!
What am I doing?
I'm currently studying for a Masters degree in Networking Technologies and Management at Sheffield Hallam University. I did my first degree at the same place, graduating in 1985 with a 2/2 in Systems Modelling. Back then, it was called Sheffield Polytechnic. It's still a proper degree though, honest!
Special skills
After nigh-on 20 years working with multivalue databases (since I graduated), I reckon I know a thing or two about them. I've also been using the Internet since about 1995. The earliest usenet post I can find attributable to me is from 30th August 1995 (and would you believe the same email address still works for me?) so I suppose I'm relatively early adopter there as well!
As well as multivalue databases, I can get by (euphemism!) with several other technologies. In my time, I've played with or using in anger C and C++, PERL, PHP, [dynamic] HTML, VBScript, Javascript, mySQL, Visual Basic, Linux (for over seven years), practically every mainstream version of Windows since 2.0, Apache, 6502 machine code, 8086 assembler (we're scraping the bottom of the barrel now...), Lately, I've also been spending quite a lot of time developing Java applications, providing a rich-client interface for some of our multivalue applications.
We've had a home network for several years as well, so that's nothing new, and we've been wireless for over two years.
I've been doing wide area networking and VPNs for about five years, before IPSec became popular. Our first VPN was using Cisco proprietary technology and Private Link Encryption on PIX firewalls, so I'm afraid I can't get excited about VPN and broadband; it's old hat :–)