User:DerrickPallas

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== Derrick Pallas ==

=== About me ===

I am a Software Engineer for [[http://www.alexa.com Alexa Internet]], a subsidiary of [[http://www.amazon.com Amazon]]. (Anything I say on this website is on my own behalf and is not the opinion or property of my company, nor should it be construed to represent such.)

I have an MS in CS from [[http://www.ucdavis.edu UCD]] where I [[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~pallas worked]] in the [[http://morpheus.cs.ucdavis.edu/ Center for Software Systems Reasearch]]. These days I just do cool tricks with Ruby and C++, advocating cool things like [[http://www.fastcgi.com FastCGI]] and [[http://microformats.org microformats]]. You probably saw me at [[http://barcamp.org/ BarCamp]] last year or the birthday party for microformats. You can often catch me at [[http://www.sfbeta.com/ SF Beta]].

Additionally, I used to write for [[http://www.thedailywtf.com The Daily WTF]]. You can find out more about me at [[http://derrick.pallas.us my own website]].

=== re: microformats ===

What I'm working on:

* working on examples for a software dependency / generic directed acyclic graph microformat
* telling everyone I know about how to embed an hCard in the web page they've already got
* I got a couple of fields added to the Alexa search engine, including "ClassTag" and "RelTag", which search for documents in which a class or rel appear. This is useful for queries against Alexa's "Million Search Results" service.
* Every month, I count the number of pages with microformats that show up in Alexa's archive.
** I don't show this number to Ben West any more, lest it end up in IRC attached to his name. (That really makes me furious.)

=== proposal: dependancy ===
* looking for examples of directed graphs on the web
* applications in
** software engineering
*** automatically build library dependency trees
*** distribute security alerts to people that link to your code
** any directed, acyclic graph
*** getting dressed in the morning
*** cooking
* orthogonal to xfn
** people don't have versions
*** libfoo requires libbar-2.0 or later
** people don't have optional relationships
*** ex: at build time, compile in SSL support if present
** people don't have exclusive-or relationships
*** ex: in Gentoo, syslog, syslog-ng, and metalog satisfy virtual/syslog
*** ex: the Ruby library RMagick requires ImageMagick xor GraphicsMagick

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