User:Cpiral

Cpiral 18:28, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Recently I'm working on
 * w:Help:Searching/Draft (and its parent)
 * Help:CirrusSearch (and its discussions)
 * w:Template:Regex (and w:Template:template usage and w:Template:Search link and w:Template:Linksto)
 * Numerous Help pages on Wikipedia, such as Searching and w:WP:Page name.
 * w:Template:Val documentation

I have worked with software in the past, developing, packaging, testing, documenting, field testing cellular telephone systems. I have an electrical engineering degree and my career was a decade in telecom, bringing up Ericsson and Motorola Cellular systems. I've done a lot of software upgrades, for cellular telephone switches, and other network nodes, both in the lab, and in the field all over the world.

I've also developed several, full featured database applications, and I have written a mountain of '''technical writing. I've installed and used several Linux systems, and written and compiled dozens of apps. I write scripts in bash, sed, awk whenever the task permits, I've written several large programs in Perl and Vim script, completed some serious training in C and C++ too, and read about the other languages. I like both Vim and Emacs, and am getting into LISP now.

I spend most of my spare time learning and practicing computer science, and enjoy keeping up with advances in software and networking and operating systems. I'm a fan of http://www.osnews.com and http://www.lwn.net, Linux, and open source, and Wikipedia.

I enjoy volunteering on Wikipedia, (since 2006), and recently got into developing template Val, until it became a Module. I'm most interested these days in Search. I've developed two templates to help teach and practice regexp searches on Wikipedia: (See W:Template:Template usage and W:Template:regex.) I've redone a dozen help pages on Wikipedia, such as W:Help:Searching and W:wp:pagename, but many others. I follow conversations on W:Template talk:Convert and Val of course, and the technical village pump.

On this site, I've recently enjoyed a lot of activity on Help talk:CirrusSearch, and recently started getting into phabricator, having authored a dozen issues.