User:Man in shack
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Man in shack is sick of seeing his name as a red link at the top of every Wikipedia page.
About the Man[edit]
Man in shack is an amateur programmer and student of Software engineering at a university in Melbourne, Australia. He prefers to program in Python, but is also proficient in Java, C, Pascal and others. He has recently contributed patches to the Deluge (BitTorrent client) project.
Man in shack is also highly capable in web-related technologies, such as HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and SQL.
About the Shack[edit]
The name Man in shack is a reference to a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series). The Man in the shack appears in Fit the Twelfth, and is the ruler of the universe.
Elsewhere on the Internet[edit]
Man in shack is a regular chatter on a variety of chatting networks, primarily the open protocols IRC and Jabber (XMPP).
- On IRC
- with the nick man_in_shack or man_in_ltop on
- with the nick sorceror or sorc|laptop on
- On Jabber
- with the JID the_man_in_the_shack@jabber.org.au
He also has a personal website and a deviantART page with the username man-in-shack.
Cool stuff by the Man in the Shack[edit]
- Debian packages for Wine (software)
- An interactive maze written entirely in HTML 4.01 and CSS level 2
- A collection of Dilbert comics that university students might enjoy