A person's a person no matter how small -- Horton in Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss [ISBN 0394800788]
Alan provides for his family by means of software engineering. He's been programming for twenty years, the last decade in Smalltalk (Oh, late have I loved thee!). Alan is a Smalltalk developer at Bedrock Software.
He enjoys studying the metaphysical realism of St. Thomas Aquinas and his modern interpreters. As highly compressed structured summaries of live debates, the medieval summae are a model of reasoned debate about complex disputed topics.
Current interests also include applying ideas in EF Shumacher's classic small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered ISBN 0-06-091630-3 to software engineering. Lately he's become Test Infected.
Interests in Literate Programming, The Source Code Is The Design, Lightweight Documentation, Locality Of Reference Documentation, and tracking the fortunes of friends like Randy Stafford and Stan Silver
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