Neale Rudd

The director of Metawerx Pty Ltd, and the administrator of this wiki.

Email: neale (at) metawerx.net

Neale holds a Bachelor of Computing from Monash University, is a member of the Golden Key Society, and speaks English and (Intermediate) Japanese.

Computing Background

Neale has been developing software since 1983. His earliest experiences were on the Commodore 64 and Apple II clones in BASIC and Assembly Language. This lead on to an interest in developing communications-related software for the Commodore Amiga 500 in C, as 1200/75bps and 300bps modems became available for home use. His first commercial work was in developing spreadsheet macro-based applications to manage accounts in Lotus 123 with HAL on XT machines in 1988. After that he went on to C programming for an accounting firm, various contract work in Delphi, Java and Cold Fusion, and started Metawerx in 1997.

Programming Background

Neale has extensive experience in the following core languages (in order of year learned):

• BASIC Variants (AppleBasic, Commodore BASIC, AmigaBASIC, GWBasic, VB)
• C Variants C, C++ (Amiga SAS/C, Borland TurboC, Microsoft C/C++, Microsoft Visual Studio C++, GCC on *ix)
• Java since v1.02 to current (1.6), including applets, servlets, JSP, various opensource packages
• HTML, JavaScript
• Delphi
• ihtml, cHTML, WML
• ASP (and Windows scripting)
• Cold Fusion version 3 to current (CFMX7)
• Linux / Unix scripting

As well as some experience in the following languages (in order of year learned):

• 6510, 68000 Assembler
• LOGO
• Amiga E
• ARexx
• Pascal (VAX Pascal)
• COBOL
• Modula 2
• Lisp, Prolog
• Eiffel
• Perl
• PHP

Databases (in order of experience, high to low):

• SQL/Server
• MS-Access
• MySQL
• PostGreSQL
• FireBird
• SAP DB
• Oracle

Preferred Environment:

• Java web-based or TCP/IP applications with flat-file or SQL/Server 2005 back-end

Interests

• Artificial Intelligence (Information and Logic Theory)
• Software Development
• Automation (Software, Office Automation, Robotics, Continous Integration)
• Network Security and Monitoring
• Martial Arts
• Science Fiction (particularly future sci-fi)
• Business and the Stock Market
• Travelling
• Japanese Language and Society