About

About Me

I’m Mike Pickering, a computing professional in Jacksonville, Florida.

Professional Information

If you’re interested, my résumé has information on what I do, what I’ve done, and what I hope to do in the future.

Contact

About This Site

This site is produced using Jekyll for everything but the photo section, which is produced using a heavily-modified Rhotoalbum. I used CMS Made Simple and Gallery for several years; before that, I used PhpWiki. I really like the idea of generating a static website based on simple text files, and like the idea that I can edit the source directly, instead of using a web interface. I also have the flexibility to leave my older pages in HTML, while creating new content in Markdown.

Layout is done using CSS, with a design based on a template from Minimalistic Design, and colors mostly taken from Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized. There are a minimum of graphics, and absolutely no Flash of any kind.

The server OS is Ubuntu Linux. I had used Gentoo for many years, on a variety of different hardware platforms, but have been very happy with Ubuntu since the switch.