Michael is an ordinary committee member on the AUUG board, as well as serving in a similar position with Linux Australia. He has been administering networks, systems, or writing code professionally since 1996, and currently works for a major Australian ISV. He is also extremely active in his local LUG.
Michael Still released his first Open Source project in July 2000, and has been actively developing ever since. He has had a variety of articles published by IBM DeveloperWorks, and once made a Tux out of fairy lights. Michael has focused recent efforts on janitorial patches to the kernel, as well as the mandocs build target. His gym program states his exercise goal as "develop laser death vision". Michael lives in Australia with his wife, two kids, and a cat.
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases based on Open Source for an Australian government department. He currently works for TOWER Software, who manufacture a world leading EDMS and Records Management package named TRIM. Michael is also the developer of Panda, an open source PDF generation API, as well as a bunch of other Open Source code. Michael has a web site at http://www.stillhq.com
IBM DeveloperWorks published a follow up article to the original article. [icbm: home]
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at http://www.stillhq.com Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from University of Canberra, and is currently studying towards his PhD from ANU.
Michael has been working in the image processing field for several years, including a couple of years managing and developing large image databases for an Australian government department. He currently works developing a commerical software product for a multinational company. Michael is also the developer a variety of open source projects, which are documented at http://www.stillhq.com Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from University of Canberra, and is currently studying towards his PhD from ANU. Michael is an committee member of both AUUG (the Australian users group for professional Unix users), and Linux Australia. He may be contacted at mikal@stillhq.com
As a hobbyist Linux kernel hacker, it struck me as obvious that the first thing I should make is a Tux made out of fairy lights. Tux is the official Linux mascot. There's a page documenting how I made Twinkle Tux if you're interested.
This page documents how I built a penguin out of fairy lights... Tux is the official mascot of the Linux operating system, to which I have made various contributions over the years. Tux was originally drawn by Larry Ewing, and looks something like: The goal was to turn this into something which worked well with fairy lights poked through holes in a piece of MDF. I guess I was thinking of pointillism when I originally came up with the idea. It seemed like a good idea, but the bit which worried me the most was to ensure that the image was clearly a penguin at the end of drilling several hundred holes in a big bit of dead tree. Being a software engineer, the obvious solution was to whip up something which could simulate Twinkle Tux. Taking the image that I had in mind, I first needed to force it into the colors which were available to me from fairy lights (red, green, blue, and yellow in the set I wanted to use). I therefore wrote a program which generated a false color Tux, in my restricted palette. This is the code I came up with, if you care about…
An article about ImageMagick for IBM Devloperworks which has been weel recieved by the ImageMagick team as well. [icbm: home]
Version 0.2 is now available. This implements the pngcp command, which can be used to edit the characteristics of PNG files. You can download the source from here. A historical note from November 2020: this code is quite old, but still actively used. I have therefore converted the old subversion repository to git and it is hosted at https://github.com/mikalstill/pngtools. I will monitor there for issues and patches and try my best to remember what I was thinking 20 years ago...