Alexander Day Chaffee
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This page last updated September 3, 1999

News

  • Effective September 1, I've moved to San Francisco!
  • Spurred on by pure hate, my brother learned HTML...

Upcoming Appearances

SIGS Java Developers Conference
San Jose, October 17-21, 1999

Bio

Alex is the CEO of Purple Technology, a leading Java training and consulting company. He has been promoting, teaching, and programming in Java since way back in 1995. As the Director of Software Engineering for EarthWeb, Alex co-created Gamelan (http://www.gamelan.com), the official directory for the Java community. He has also presented at numerous users groups and conferences, written articles for several Java magazines, and contributed to the book The Official Gamelan Java Directory. He has also published research papers on evolutionary computation (aka "genetic algorithms") and on implicit memory in human cognition.

Life

  • I periodically inflict stories of my life on my friends and associates. I've collected these stories in my inappropriately-named Almanac.
  • On Friday, May 20, 1995, I went on a blind date with the pseudonymous Alison Hell. Here's the post-mortem.
  • My roommate Nancy has a nice web site, as does jezebel. Dr. Eric Siegel wishes he had a nice web site.

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Work

  • I run Purple Technology - Java Training, Consulting, and Expertise.
  • My resume in HTML and in Microsoft Word format.
  • Gamelan, my labor of love. I created Gamelan with Nova Spivack in 1995, and nurtured it through its first 2 years of life.

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