Tue, 13 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Ever since
Laura Thomson wrote her first program in the fourth grade, coding has been a major part of her life. Over the years, she has been a lecturer in computer science at RMIT University in Australia, a principal at
OmnTI, a consulting company that designs Internet systems, a trainer of other programmers, the co-writer of
PHP and MySQL Web Development and
MySQL Tutorial, and a frequent speaker at free and open source conferences. She is currently a senior software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation, where her recent work includes the API for the Add-ons Manager on Firefox 3. With this background, Thomson has strong views on coding, its future, and its place in business, especially where free and open source software (FOSS) is concerned, which she shared with Linux.com at the recent
Open Web Vancouver conference.
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