====== Samuel Penn ======

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I'm a Java software developer living in Hampshire, England, and currently working at [[http://www.perforce.com/|Perforce Software]] as a Java Cloud Developer. In my previous life I worked with EDMS' such as Livelink, Alfresco, Hyperwave, Documentum and FileNET. I've been working in document management for almost 15 years. Before that I studied Computer Science/AI at Edinburgh University, and prior to that I wrote various games and simulations in assembler and BBC Basic.

Hobbies include gaming (computer games, roleplaying games, wargames and boardgames), reading, managing my Linux servers and programming overly complex simulations of the universe. I have a couple of Sourceforge projects, [[http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/|Mapcraft]] and [[http://yagsbook.glendale.org.uk/|Yagsbook]], an open source RPG called [[http://yags.glendale.org.uk/|Yags]] and I wrote the [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/cities|Cities Mapping Project]].

^ Email | [[mailto:sam@glendale.org.uk]] |
^ IM (XMPP/Jabber) | xmpp:sam@glendale.org.uk |
^ Homepage         | [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/]] |
^ Google           | [[http://www.google.com/profiles/samuel.penn]] |

Other places I can be found:
  * [[http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SamuelPenn|HantsLUG]]
  * [[https://sourceforge.net/users/samuelpenn|Sourceforge]]
  * [[http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/samuel-penn/14/963/a50|Linked In]]

Photograph collection:
  * [[https://picasaweb.google.com/samuel.penn|Picasa]]

Previous identities (no longer valid, but I can still be found in mailing list and Usenet archives):
  * sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk
  * samuelp@aisb.ed.ac.uk
  * smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk

===== Some Lists =====

  * [[/user/samuel_penn/books]]
  * [[/user/samuel_penn/ps3]]

===== Things I'm Doing =====

  * Fleshing out Yags SciFi equipment lists.
  * Painting lots of //Full Thrust// figures.

==== Software ====

  * [[http://mapcraft.glendale.org.uk/]] - Mostly working on software to randomly generate a detailed universe for a Traveller campaign, including world maps for several hundred thousand worlds.

==== Reading ====

My reading time is currently very limited.

  * **Pushing Ice**, Alastair Reynolds
  * **Cycles of Time**, Roger Penrose


==== Gaming ====

  * **Dark Heresy**, in the middle of a [[/darkheresy|campaign]].

Previously:

  * **Traveller**, running a Traveller game using [[http://www.glendale.org.uk/yags|Yags]].
  * **Legend of the Five Rings**, playing a Unicorn battle maiden.