Revision as of 00:39, 18 August 2008

My Favorite Languages
Language	Proficiency
Visual Basic	Advanced
BASIC	Intermediate
Brainf***	Intermediate
C++	Intermediate
Perl	Intermediate
PHP	Intermediate
UNIX Shell	Intermediate
C	Beginner
Java	Beginner
Javascript	Beginner
SQL	Beginner
Visual Basic .NET	Beginner
Python	Want to Learn

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. From Fall of 2007 until June of 2008, RC ran on my shared hosting account. In June of 2008, Qrush offered use of his Slicehost VPS account for hosting Rosetta Code.

TODO List

This is my prioritized TODO list regarding activities on Rosetta Code.

Rosetta theme. Get it working well under Firefox, then IE 7, IE 6 and IE 5.5.
Add support for <code> to GeSHi. Phase out <lang> approach.
Finish Python port of RCRPG, post Perl and Python versions
Investigate Wiki2LaTeX
Poke around for GeSHi replacement that makes use of vim syntax highlighting configurations

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)

Questions

If you have any questions, you can try leaving me a note (I can't guarantee I'll get back to you quickly.), asking on the Village Pump, or dropping by on IRC. If it's about RC organization, you might query Mwn3d, IanOsgood and/or Kevin Reid.

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 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.  From Fall of 2007 until June of 2008, RC ran on my shared hosting account.  In June of 2008, [[User:Qrush|Qrush]] offered use of his Slicehost VPS account for hosting Rosetta Code.
-==Away==
-My job will continue to consume my soul until mid-August, so I will not be able to follow RC closely for a while.  If you need assistance with policy, see if you can come to a consensus or compromise.  If you can't, try checking with [[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]].  If he doesn't want to touch it, email me at [mailto:mikemol@gmail.com mikemol@gmail.com] with the URL with the talk page where you've discussed it, and I'll weigh in.
-Or you can skirt discussion and Mwn3d and come to me directly, but beware of the logic behind thought processes taking place after 2AM.
-:For anyone who needs to contact me, it is easiest to talk to me in [[Special:Mibbit|the IRC channel]] (if I'm there), or to write on [[User talk:Mwn3d|my talk page]]. If that's too public for you, you can email me at [mailto:rekaeuqs1@gmail.com rekaeuqs1@gmail.com]. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 19:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 ==TODO List==