Greetings from a Jacksonville Florida, SE!

[Darren Li]

Hello everyone,

As my username indicates, my name is Darren Li, I'm a software Engineer in the Defense Industry in Jacksonville Florida. I currently program maintenance behaviors for the AH64D/E. I naturally love solving problems and love challenges, so programming has been good to me and has sparked a great interest in expanding my knowledge in various fields. My main hobbies are shooting, running, cycling, off-roading and camping. I love to see people’s unique approaches to solving problems, no matter the medium, and love to see if I can come up with something better and/or different. So with that in mind, I truly can’t wait to expand my knowledge here on the forums and hopefully me being potentially so comparatively young I’ll be able to give back to the community. I truly feel that Open Source is the way to go since it encourages collaboration as well as competition that only betters the end result (In my opinion).

Look forward to getting to know everyone and reading up on some really great articles!

[Doug Coulter]

Welcome Darren. You're in a fast crowd now, and a lot of the newer guys are computer/software types - which we needed for balance, I was getting a bit lonely over there. I'm a big fan of various flavors of open source myself. But as just one guy, with a lot of other things to do, I only can do so much. In my case, I simply write code to do things I couldn't find (or afford) elsewhere - I "scratch my own itch". Others take on bigger projects, or help with them. Personally, I don't have time to be a linux kernal developer for example - it works well enough for me as is, there's no itch there, really (though I do see some dumb things done). It's something that loads my code and runs it...but YMMV and so on.

[Nick Strait]

hey, your only like a half hour from me(saint augustine here(you know the large tourist trap between jax and daytona)