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Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I should probably subscribed to Code4Lib. Then I had a meeting yesterday in which I was asked to start working on a new project that would require that I do more library specific development (I've mostly been developing applications for the international agriculture community for the past few years). The kicker though was reading that Eric has decided to come over to the dark side and has started to do some development in Java and I figured he could use some moral support. As a bit of an introduction... I work at Mann Library, one of the 20 unit libraries at Cornell University. Albert R. Mann Library is the library for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, thus my work in the Agriculture community. My official title is Programmer/Analyst Specialist, however for the past couple of years I have served as the Technology Strategist/Systems Architect for our department as well. I develop web and standalone applications almost exclusively in Java primarily using the Spring Framework and SOA practices. I have been an active participant in the open source community primarily with my association with JA-SIG for about six years. I have been serving on the planning committee for the upcoming JA-SIG conference (I'll have to see if an announcement for it has been posted yet) and have been on the committee for the past four conferences. I've served as the jasig.org (and uPortal.org) webmaster for several years. Prior to working at Cornell I worked in the corporate world going back 30 years, including 13 years at the Hewlett Packard workstation division (where I set up their first TCP/IP network), but my first job in the electronics industry was working on a production line building home Pong games at Atari. I have been an active participant in the Usenet community since 1985.