User:Alvonruff

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I used to be the founder, programmer, and editor of the ISFDB. Now I'm the founder, programmer, and occasional editor (Ahasuerus keeps me busy fixing program bugs, which leaves little time to actually modify data). In a few months I hope to merely be founder and programmer of the ISFDB.


Contents

Schedule

Since I'm prone to disappearing for lengthy periods of time, I'll start putting some schedule information online, so you'll know when I'm completely unavailable:


Biography

I was born in California in 1956. My father was in the Air Force, so we lived in various places like Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington D.C., Turkey, Oklahoma, and Alaska. I was in the US Navy for 9 years, and I had the pleasure of working in places like New Jersey, Diego Garcia (launching weather balloons), San Diego, Texas, Illinois, and Guam (doing top secret weather forecasts. No, really - Top Secret codeword weather forecasts).

I went back to college in 1985, and obtained a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. I worked as a slave laborer for a small startup for one year, then started working at Motorola in 1990 as part of the Motorola Computer Group. I worked on networking stacks for the first couple of years, and I used to have daily arguments with Eric Bina about whether certain bugs were in his X-Windows implementation or my socket interface - until he left for the NCSA and co-wrote Mosaic. We were running Mosaic and httpd locally back when there were no web sites to visit but our own internal ones, and there were no books on how to write HTML (it's okay - I put the HTML manual on part of a Postit note).

I started building simulators in 1994 to monitor system performance. In 1997 they moved our site into the Cellular division, and we started building simulators of cell phones. In 1998 I was turned to the dark side and began to manage the Platform Simulation team. I'm a Motorola Science Advisory Board Associate and a Dan Noble Fellow. I work in Austin, Texas and live on 14 acres about 5 miles east of Georgetown, Texas.

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/alvonruff

Things to do - Programming

  1. Editing history, diffs
  2. Serial linkage
  3. Translator support
  4. Tool to find publication content merge candidates
  5. Advanced search
  6. Publisher imprints.
  7. Publication enhancements: editions, printings, roles, dimensions
  8. Purge storylen field overloading
  9. Error detection
  10. Make award editing generally available
  11. Complete viewers so users see tables instead of XML when submitting data.
  12. De-genre-cize ISFDB code (for instance make awards support SQL driven, not code driven)
  13. Unit tests, Regression tests
  14. Refactor code: cleanup, simplify, use more object classes

Things to do - Awards

  • Apollo: Up to date with 1990.
  • Analog: Up to date with 2006.
    • (Locus shows a nomination for Dominic Harmon for the Oct 2003 cover, and we show that cover as by Broeck Steadman).
  • Arthur C. Clarke: Up to date with 2008.
  • Asimov's Reader Poll: Up to date with 2007.
  • Bram Stoker
    • 2003: Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Illustrated Narrative, Screenplay, Work for Younger Readers, Poetry Collections, Alternative Forms, Specialty Press Award, Life Achievement, Trustee Award, President's Award.
    • 2004: Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Illustrated Narrative, Screenplay, Work for Younger Readers, Poetry Collections, Alternative Forms, Specialty Press Award, Life Achievement, Trustee Award, President's Award.
    • 2005: Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Illustrated Narrative, Screenplay, Work for Younger Readers, Poetry Collections, Alternative Forms, Specialty Press Award, Life Achievement, Trustee Award, President's Award.
    • 2006: Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Illustrated Narrative, Screenplay, Work for Younger Readers, Poetry Collections, Alternative Forms, Specialty Press Award, Life Achievement, Trustee Award, President's Award.
    • 2007: Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Poetry Collections.
  • British Science Fiction Awards - Up to date with 2007
  • Hugos: Up to date with 2008
  • John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer: Up to date with 2008
  • Locus Poll
    • 2005: Short Story, Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Art Book, Editor, Magazine, Publisher, Artist.
    • 2006: Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Art Book, Editor, Magazine, Publisher, Artist.
    • 2007: Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Collection, Anthology, Nonfiction, Art Book, Editor, Magazine, Publisher, Artist.
    • 2008: Voting now in progress.
  • Nebulas: Up to date with 2007
  • Philip K. Dick: Up to date with 2007
  • World Fantasy Award
    • 2003: Life Achievement
    • 2004: Life Achievement, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Anthology, Collection, Artist, Special Award (Pro and non-Pro)
    • 2005: Life Achievement, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Anthology, Collection, Artist, Special Award (Pro and non-Pro)
    • 2006: Life Achievement, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Anthology, Collection, Artist, Special Award (Pro and non-Pro)

Regular Places I Need to Visit

Reading List

2008

2007

2006

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