User:MikeMol

Visual Basic This user can program in Visual Basic. Level: Advanced

BASIC This user can program in BASIC. Level: Intermediate

Brainf*** This user can program in Brainf***. Level: Intermediate

C++ This user can program in C++. Level: Intermediate

Perl This user can program in Perl. Level: Intermediate

PHP This user can program in PHP. Level: Intermediate

UNIX Shell This user can program in UNIX Shell. Level: Intermediate

C This user can program in C. Level: Beginner

Java This user can program in Java. Level: Beginner

Javascript This user can program in Javascript. Level: Beginner

SQL This user can program in SQL. Level: Beginner

Visual Basic .NET This user can program in Visual Basic .NET. Level: Beginner

Who am I

My name is Mike Mol. I founded Rosetta Code. It was an idea I'd had during a Christmas vacation, before I'd heard of other programming chrestomathy sites.

But who am I, really? I'm the Administrator. That guy who's got so much to do, he has to have other people run the site for him. (Hats off to the Bureaucrats!) On a good week, I can give pointers to where I think RC should go, and how it should be organized. With luck, someone else has the time to make the changes.

I try to act as a facilitator, to let the site and its community grow, and give a push (or pull) when things slow down.

Contact

Talk page

This page's "talk page" is a great way to have a public conversation with me. Click on the "discussion" tab above, and then click on "edit".

Email

My email address is mikemol@gmail.com. Feel free to drop me an email if desired.

IM

If you have Google Talk, you can try adding me as a buddy, via my email address. Alternatively, use this clever little chat thing. (

IRC

You can stop by the Rosetta Code IRC channel on Freenode (#rosettacode), where a few RC members (and a few language bots) reside.

Languages

I've been a Linux geek since 1999-2000, so I've got a healthy respect for Perl, the Bourne Again SHell and C, but my day job involves coding in Windows, which means I've lately been spending most of my time in C++. I'm competent with PHP as well, and have written a couple applications that made good use of JavaScript.

RSS

I currently keep an eye on Rosetta Code by adding Special:Recentchanges to my Google Reader. I find it's a great way to stay apprised. I also watch a number of other programming feeds, the most interesting of which is probably the feed for programming.reddit.com.

Rosetta Code

Rosetta Code came from an idea I had during Christmas of 2006. I'd recently revisited Wikibooks' List of Hello World Programs, and didn't care for its limited scope. As I was President of the GRCC Computer Club at the time, I convinced the club to host a project called Goodbye World (shortly renamed to Rosetta Code). I chose MediaWiki because I felt it would let me get started more quickly than any other system. Once I had a few categories and tasks set up, I submitted the page to Slashdot.

Well, if you take Slashdot, a shared hosting account, and an uncached MediaWiki setup, and throw them in a blender, you get a big mess. The kind folks at Geekalize noticed, and offered RC free hosting on their dedicated server. That carried RC through until the end of the arrangement in the fall of 2007. RC now runs on my own shared hosting account.

Policy

(I'll have to find a better place for this eventually.)

I'm something of a benevolent dictator here on Rosetta Code. One thing I've discovered, though, is that other people are usually right. Hence, if you have a suggestion, let me know. However...

Language Promotion

I explicitly allow and endorse language promotion on RC, so long as it takes the form of code. I occasionally seek out language developers and enthusiasts to get regular contributors for new languages. Language comparison is the primary goal of Rosetta Code, and enthusiastic contributors help towards that. --Short Circuit 21:22, 11 December 2007 (MST)