Hey everyone! It’s time for another installment of Meet the Crew (which used to be called Meet the Staff, but libraries have “staff”, not websites!) Who are the people behind SourceForge.net? What do they care about? Surely, the world wants to know. Thankfully, I was able to wrangle some answers out of Luke Crouch, one of our top coders in Engineering.
Name: Luke Crouch, Software Engineer
Location: Tulsa, OK
Q: So! What do you do at SourceForge?
well, look … uh, web programming – so I write PHP, HTML, Javascript and the occasional Java code. I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS. CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Q: How long have you been on the SourceForge.net staff?
about a year and a half. first 5 months on site code, then switched to Marketplace team for its 9-month gestation, now back on site code. […the Marketplace team was a completely separate team for a while, focused on building our services and support marketplace.]
Q: How will our community know when you’ve done your job well?
bugs get fixed; new features are added; plus lots of intangibles – my code is home-grown right here in the real world, with 100% all-natural ingredients.
Q: What made you want to join the staff at SourceForge.net?
umm … it’s SourceForge.net. seriously, sf.net has always been an OSS staple; I’ve always been a fan. even when we’re not at our best.
Q: What part of SourceForge.net have you worked on most recently?
plug: right now we’re working on the 2008 Community Choice Awards and some backend refactoring anticipating our new data center. aside from that I’m generally lurking in the jabber channel pitching my ideas on OOP, MVC, REST, and Agile.
Q: Can you has cheezburger?
I’m in ur Lent, giving up ur meat. which has seriously altered my $3 cheeseburger night down at the pub.
Q: When you dream in code, what language is it in?
PHP, specifically Zend Framework. python sounds like my dream language, but I’m already in a pretty serious relationship, y’know?
Q: What kinds of development tools do you normally use? Emacs or vi? OSX, Linux, or Windows? Which *sh do you prefer, if any?
OSX, Eclipse, Coda, vi. I have yet to find a code tool that does everything I want and nothing I don’t want. unless someone can tell me how to do WebDav in Eclipse, or how to get OOP code-hinting and svn integration in Coda. and I don’t wanna write it myself in lisp, or type ctrl+x, ctrl+w, ctrl+e, ctrl+b, ctrl+d, ctrl+a, ctrl+v to do it. sorry, emacs guys – shameless dig there 🙁
Thanks, Luke!