Work

	I work at Novell (NOVL) located just off Rt 128, in Waltham, MA Our product line, exteNd, is a combination of runtime services and design tools to let you build web applications based on J2EE, XML and Web Services. It is based on standards and allows you to pull together your data from disparate back-end systems. I was one of the original founding engineers of SilverStream Software which was acquired by Novell in 2002 but now manage the Application Server team.
	Trying to keep up with the Web seems close to impossible. The place to start is the W3C. Their major work areas of interest to me being HTTP, HTML and URIs (well this is from IETF). The IETF has an HTTP working group which archives it's mailing list. iWORLD maintains some excellent sites to help you keep up with servers (WebCompare and ServerWatch) and browsers (BrowserWatch). There's also Search Engine Watch and Search Engine World. TBTF Scout Report IP * RISKS NetSurfer EduPage RRE First Monday Cringely	c|net Internet World ComputerNewsDaily Slashdot
	Trying to keep up with what's new in Java is even harder. Sun keeps the latest Java Documentation about the JDK online. The complete The Java Language Specification is available. The JDC is a Sun site for developers to keep up with the latest in Java, including bugs in the implementation and archives of mailing lists. Java is updated via the JCP. Java has many component products and APIs the most important to us being the umbrella specification of J2EE. The J2EE components are: Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, RMI-IIOP, JMS, JNDI, JTA JavaMail, and JavaBeans Activation Framework. J2EE 1.3 also adds: JAAS, JAXP, and Connector These are all being developed under the Java Community Process which has several expert groups formed to expand and improve the technologies. Many of your questions are probably answered in the excellent Java FAQ. Gamelan is a directory of resources relating to Java.	JavaWorld JDJ Java Report DevX JavaPro JGuru Servlet Central JSP Insider jdance TheServerSide
Web Services	I'm on the OASIS technical committee for WS-Security. WSS.
	Gnu Gnu Manuals I'm a long time user of Gnu Emacs, the last few years I run Emacs on Windows Learn all about it at the EmacsWiki. Development happens at Savannah which also has an archive of the Emacs Mailing Lists. The GNU Emacs FAQ is huge and the List of Emacs resources is great if you're doing Emacs development. XEmacs Some of the elisp packages I use all the time are: VM, BBDB, Gnus, Gnuserv, Ispell, and clearcase.el. Some packages I keep up with but don't really use are: PSGML Mailcrypt, JDEE and the CEDET projects.

Background

	Previously, I spent 6 years as an engineer at the Open Software Foundation in Cambridge MA. (We OSF alumni try to stay in touch with each other.) OSF and X/Open consolidated to form the Open Group, an international consortium of vendors, ISVs and end-user customers from industry, government, and academia. The Open Group, dedicated to the advancement of multi-vendor information systems, works to deliver technology innovations and wide-scale adoption of open systems specifications.	IETF WorkGroups IMC Usenix InterNIC IANA ISO ANSI OMG
	Some of OSF's technologies you might have heard of are: DCE, CDE/Motif, and DME. I was one of the orginal engineers on the Distributed Computing Environment, working on the OSF/1 port of the RPC, CDS, and DTS components, as well as being generally knowledgable in all of DCE. During development of DCE 1.1. I was the tech lead for the dcecp development team. Before leaving OSF I was working on a book for O'Reilly Associates on DCE Administration.
	After that, I was one of two principal developers of WanD a high performance multi-protocol (HTTP and DCE-Web, easy to add others) World Wide Web server which was part of the DCE-Web ATO of the OSF Research Institute. It integrates the Web with DCE benefitting from DCE security and naming as well as including a variety of extension mechanisms. With very little tuning, we're within spitting distance of Apache's performance.
	Before going to OSF, I worked at Data General for two years, mostly on an X.500 implementation.
	I have a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA (yes they talk funny there). This is what they learn now. I was a charter member of the Delta Xi * chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma. Some of my fraternity brothers with Web pages are: Paul Pyzowski, Ed Chung and Seth Mangum of ditherdog, Kim Loughran (of View Askew), Tom Janicki, Shep Bostin (of Netword), and Melissa Ruffo.