Helpers and Heroes

Helpers and Heroes

I'm too old and cynical for hero worship of the teenage kind so don't get the wrong idea. Nonetheless some of the people named below have made significant contributions to the environment in which I live and work, the tools I use (and am using to type this) and to tools that I have created or modified my self.

In no particular order, mostly most recent first, here are my heroes and helpers:

Gnuplot Team

for gnuplot; a really neat plotting tool for both 2d and 3d charts.

Ricardo Sasson Saat

For the VBGnuPlot wrapper for gnuplot which inspired me to create another wrapper to go around his wrapper.

Mike Gleason

for NcFTP, this world's best FTP client. NcFTPPut is used to upload this web site; so much easier than GUI clients.

Fabio Guerrazzi

Great site with easily understood free Visual Basic source code for various things to do with user interfaces especially graphics. I took his property dialog component and reworked it to do things my way, saved me a lot of time as I didn't have to design it myself just reimplement to support my extra features.

Dave Love

at Daresbury Laboratory for help with visual-basic-mode.el.

John Wiegley

Without John Wiegley this Wiki and many others that I use every day in both work and play would not exist.

Geoff Voelker

for the NT Emacs distribution; need I say more?

William Perry

for Emacs-W3 one of the best web browsers you can find. William Perry is now trying to get some help to rework W3 as components.

[http://www.fsf.org][Richard Stallman]]

for Emacs itself and the politics of free software.

Christian Lemburg

a considerate and helpful user of XEmacs who found a bug, fixed it, reported it and supplied the patch.

Simon Marshall

provided a fix to make VBP-mode.el work in emacs-19.29.

Robert Marshall

suggested some fixes but I can't remember what they were now!

stop1984

German site about surveillance and the erosion of privacy and liberty.