Samuel Penn

I'm a Java software developer living in Hampshire, England, and currently working at 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, Mapcraft and Yagsbook, an open source RPG called Yags and I wrote the Cities Mapping Project.

Other places I can be found:

• HantsLUG
• Sourceforge
• Linked In

Photograph collection:

• 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Previous identities (no longer valid, but I can still be found in mailing list and Usenet archives):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

• Books
• Playstation 3 Games

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

• 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.

My reading time is currently very limited.

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

• Dark Heresy, in the middle of a campaign.

Previously:

• Traveller, running a Traveller game using Yags.
• Legend of the Five Rings, playing a Unicorn battle maiden.