I am an attorney working in Rhode Island, U.S.A. Programming is a hobby that goes back to my childhood when I programmed BASIC on an Apple ][+. I used to program little console programs in Perl, dabbled in Ruby, settled on Python, and am now exploring Vala. I am currently running Gnome on a Dell 1420n Inspiron (Gutsy Gibbon).

Fow now, I'm learning Vala. I'll detail my experiences below in a sort of uber-newbie tutorial.