John Goerzen

http://twitter.com/jgoerzen

Areas of Expertise:

  • Linux
  • programming
  • software development
  • version control
  • git
  • darcs
  • Haskell
  • Python
  • shell
  • TCP/IP
  • networking
  • storage
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
John Goerzen is an American hacker and author. He has written a number of real-world Haskell libraries and applications, including the HDBC database interface, the ConfigFile configuration file interface, a podcast downloader, and various other libraries relating to networks, parsing, logging, and POSIX code. John has been a developer for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system project for over 10 years and maintains numerous Haskell libraries and code for Debian. He also served as President of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., the legal parent organization of Debian. John lives in rural Kansas with his wife and son, where he enjoys photography and geocaching.

Real World Haskell Real World Haskell
by Bryan O'Sullivan , John Goerzen , Donald Bruce Stewart
November 2008
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

John blogs at:

No Hate

March 28 2013

“God hates people that are…” I heard a sentence that began that way on an interview with a protestor outside the Supreme Court yesterday. It is a deeply sad, and deeply wrong, statement. If someone reads the Bible, and can come up with a word, any word, that completes that… read more

Catching the mudball

February 12 2013

“Dad, can I bring my mudball inside?” – Jacob “Ooo, dad, I need a mudball too!” – Oliver You’d have to have been there to see how excited Jacob was about his mudball. We had been out hiking down by the creek a day after a rain, and he, well,… read more