Manni Wood

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Manni Wood's first taste of a real operating system was IBM's Unix variant, AIX, in 1994. It was a revelation. By the time a year had gone by, Manni had installed Slackware Linux on an old PC, was responsible for creating web sites, using Perl, at the newspaper company he worked for, and had Web Applications Programmer as a job title.

Ten years later, Manni is still in love with the Unix way of doing things. But now, instead of making Perl/CGI-based web sites for a newspaper company in Toronto, Manni leads teams at a Boston advertising company in building Java-based, database-backed web sites for clients like General Motors and FedEx.

As an antidote to using his head all day at work, Manni uses his feet in his social life: he's been a regular in Boston's swing dancing scene for over six years.

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Custom-Compiling Apache and Subversion
Publish Date: Jul. 7, 2005Subversion is a useful, powerful, and modern revision-control system that builds on well-understood and powerful tools including Apache. This layering has many benefits--and drawbacks, if the defaults aren't quite right for you. You can compile them yourself, though; Manni Wood demonstrates how. Automating PostgreSQL Tasks
Publish Date: Dec. 9, 2004Databases aren't just create-once, ignore forever sinkholes for data. You'll likely spend time maintaining them, if not generating reports. Save your tender wrists and automate some of those routine tasks. Manni Wood demonstrates how to combine Perl, the shell, and the psql command-line utility to do repetitive jobs for you.

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