Hi my name is Matt, I would like to start learning more about what goes on behind the
scenes and apply my current skills and gain some new ones, hopefully in web application
development. By day I work in systems/network operations for a FOIP company in, mainly
doing new physical deployments and backend grunt work (backups, monitoring(Nagios),
vulnerability scanning(NMap, Nessus), firefighting. I have a good working knowledge of
BASH, Sed/Awk, Python, C/C++, SQL, MediaWiki and some Django. I hope to put the little
Django experience I have to more use and expand upon it.
By night I am working on a small script/package collection for Windows admins who refuse
to actually use Windows or a heavyweight GUI for that matter. My goal is a single package
that will contain everything most admins need including rdesktop, OpenConnect and various
scripts for parsing common windows log files into meaningful noise. If I have to do
something more than twice, I'm scripting it.
My IRC nick is urlugal and I hope to contribute to the website and the wiki as my skills
improve. For now I am ok with watching and learning unless someone has a specific project
I can get my feet wet with. I couldn't find anything that looked relatively simple in
the Active Tickets list and didn't want to step on toes.