Kevin Shockey

Biography

Kevin is an emerging technology entrepreneur. After spending 16 years in corporate software development and project management, he now leads the SNAP Platform project. The SNAP Platform is the only integrated distribution of a completely open source Java-like Development Kit.

When he's not reading, writing, or dreaming he likes to spend time enjoying his family. His vision is to share his passion, mental agility, intuition, and challenge of authority to build an open future full of opportunity. His website is www.x-cito.com.

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Building Mono on Windows
Publish Date: Feb. 7, 2005Mono, the open source implementation of the CLR, is not just for non-Microsoft platforms. Kevin Shockey walks you through the three phases required to build Mono on Windows without using the .NET framework.

Blog

Is Sun brain dead?

November 09 2006

In the most blatent misuse of the Web 2.0 meme, Sun wants Web 2.0 entrepreneurs to buy Sun hardware to launch a new web company! This is the exact opposite of what a web startup should do today. In fact, if there is one thing a new company should do to… read more

Post OSCON I: The darker side of speaking

August 11 2006

Three years ago I remember sitting in a session, one of many, and thinking how cool it would be to be a speaker at OSCON. I mean seriously, OSCON is the best software conference in the world, who wouldn’t want to be a speaker? As speaker, you join an elite… read more

OSCON'06 Pre-Convention Post

July 30 2006

Back in Portland again for this week’s open source convention. This will be my third, second as a speaker, but my first as a journalist. Early this year I took over the TUX Magazine Editor in Chief position from Nicholas Peterley. TUX Magazine is the first and only magazine for… read more