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Many, many people have contributed
to this section, including almost all
authors here. See specific articles for
more. But our main OS X person is...
Mike Vanndorsdel
Mike lives in a small city in northern
Colorado. Just close enough to civilization
to use it, but far enough he can still
breathe. Unfortunately a little too far
for broadband.
Mike is a high school graduate and still
attending college. He started looking
for a degree in mechanical engineering,
but soon learned that computers where
his first interest. He was exposed to
Macs at an early age, actually using an
Apple I at school. He was lucky that his
small school district was one of the most
technologically advanced in the state.
So he always had access to the latest
in computer technology, and little else
than Apple. By middle school Mike was
one of the technology lab assistants where
he trained students and teachers to use
computers and helped to keep the machines
maintained and up to date.
After high school, he went to the local
University to study mechanical engineering.
After nearly two years and a complete
saturation of M.E. students, He decided
to move to computer programming, learning
the joys of Fortran, ANSI C, and C++!
With those as a foundation, he moved on
to teach himself PowerPC Assembly, BASIC,
and Objective-C. He worked on various
projects involving Unix, WIndows, and
Mac OS, most never saw the light of day.
His first personal work was done for the
Mac OS, naturally. His current work is
done almost exclusively for Mac OS X where
he is the author of DMG Maker, Firewalk
X, an OS X firewall, and UnivertX,
an OS X unit conversion utility.
His major interests are video gaming,
golfing, baseball, and programming.
Mike has seen, used, installed, and reinstalled
the dark side. That's why he now lives
in front of the warm glow of a 19" monitor
next to his Macintosh.
mikevann@applelust.com
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