Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. Michael has focused recent efforts on janitorial patches to the kernel, as well as the mandocs build…
Bio for LCA 2004
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases based on Open Source for an Australian government department. He currently works for TOWER Software, who manufacture a world leading EDMS and Records Management package named TRIM. Michael is also the developer…
More graphics from the command line
IBM DeveloperWorks published a follow up article to the original article. [icbm: home]
Biographical information for Mikal
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at…
Biographical information for Mikal
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at…
The making of Twinkle Tux
As a hobbyist Linux kernel hacker, it struck me as obvious that the first thing I should make is a Tux made out of fairy lights. Tux is the official Linux mascot. There’s a page documenting how I made Twinkle Tux if you’re interested.
The making of Twinkle Tux
This page documents how I built a penguin out of fairy lights… Tux is the official mascot of the Linux operating system, to which I have made various contributions over the years. Tux was originally drawn by Larry Ewing, and looks something like: The goal was to turn this into something which worked well with…
Graphics from the command line
An article about ImageMagick for IBM Devloperworks which has been weel recieved by the ImageMagick team as well. [icbm: home]
PNGtools 0.2
Version 0.2 is now available. This implements the pngcp command, which can be used to edit the characteristics of PNG files. You can download the source from here. A historical note from November 2020: this code is quite old, but still actively used. I have therefore converted the old subversion repository to git and it…
2002: DocBook
I gave a talk at the local LUG (CLUG) about DocBook and how to use some wierd little scripts I wrote to make life easier.