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Chris Norton
Hello Friend!
OK. Who is Chris??? Well, I'm a software developer/architect, a fantasy & science fiction book enthusiast, an avid weightlifter, an amateur guitarist and an all around great guy! Well, I try to be those things anyway... :-)
I graduated from Concordia College, in Moorhead Minnesota, in 1992. After 5 years of searching & taking as many classes as I could, I wound up with a Bachelors of Arts in Honors English and Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Spanish. Boy was that fun! I just wish I could do that again!
My employer, KRONOS, Inc. (http://www.kronos.com), is the world leader in Time & Labor Management. The great news for you, is that they are also a big Smalltalk proponent. Smalltalk jobs are open! We've got a need for people to develop code in Visual Smalltalk Enterprise and Visual Age (as well as many Java openings). Send me an e-mail at chrisn@kronos.com and I'll make sure your resume gets some attention!
My friends & coworkers can tell you that I am a huge Squeak & Smalltalk proponent. I don't believe I can adequately describe to you how much better my software career is and how much better my coding/design/ingenuity has become since I started working full time in Smalltalk (in 1995). Smalltalk is a language that lets you concentrate on the problems you're solving; it is almost bereft of the useless hours spent on the "mechanics of programming". I shudder to think of how much time I wasted on such trivial tasks (like linked lists, file maintenance, etc.). My heartfelt thanks go out to Alan Kay & Dan Ingalls for their vision and huge contributions to the computing world!
Well, I hope to post something a bit more interesting in the future!
If I had more time in the day, I'd spend it Squeaking...
Squeak on friend!
===> Chris
chrisn@kronos.com
Here is a tidbit I submitted to the Squeak user's mailing list:
[ENH] Singleton - (Singleton class) this is an implementation of the Singleton pattern. Here's the changeset: Singleton.cs