[GNUe-dev] Introduction

[Jeff LaMarche]

Greetings, all.

I ran across your project today for the first time (following a link 
from the PostgreSQL website), and am very excited by what you are 
doing. I am currently working as an independent consultant doing 
PeopleSoft implementation and integration work, but also know a number 
of other languages -- including Java C, C++ and Objective-C, SQL, and 
SQR -- and am also familiar with several operating systems and 
databases.

Prior to going independent, I was the lead technical developer at 
PeopleSoft for production releases for Human Resources (recently 
renamed Human Capital Management). Part of the reason I left PeopleSoft 
was due to frustration caused by the fact that legacy spaghetti code 
and an archaic architecture combined with management pressure for short 
development cycles made it all but impossible to modernize their HR 
suite (despite the pretty web-enabled surface, the underlying 
architecture is struggling under its own weight).

So, needless to say, the possibility of getting involved relatively 
early in a project such as yours excites me, and I believe that I can 
bring to your project a lot of hard-learned lessons on how to (and how 
not to) design an enterprise HR system.

It will take me a little while to get up to speed, learn Python, and 
get familiar with the code that's already been written. What I've seen 
at so far looks to be well-thought-out, well implemented, and 
well-documented, so hats off to you folks, and I look forward to 
getting more involved.

Cheers,
Jeff LaMarche