User:Graham
From Pigasoftware
Graham Lawrence Wilson is a co-founder of Piga Software and serves as Piga Software's web master and main game engine developer. Graham's most important role (other then maintainer of Piga's websites) is to develop the Gambas Genie real time strategy engine for Piga Software's star project: Free Empires. Graham's main programming experience is for Visual Basic 6, Game Maker, QBasic, Liberty Basic, and Gamabs (he also knows HTML and some CSS for web development). He has also done some slight experiments with C++ and Java, both of which he wishes to study more throughly at a later time. He is fourteen years of age and suffers from myopia (near-sighted vision) and scoliosis (curvature of the spine) although he interested in staying in shape through farm labour and exercise ("Building the body as well as the mind"). He is a full Canadian citizen as well as a citizen by descent of New Zealand. Graham is interested in politics/economics, philosophy, hacking/hacker culture, gaming, fan works, writing, computer animation, paleontology/history, reverse engineering, naturalism, intellectualism, marksmanship, and ranching/poultry-raising.
Graham prefers GNOME over KDE, describing KDE's desktop as "bloated and increasingly unappealing" (particularly version 4), however he does commend the K project's programs as typically better than those that come with GNOME. He prefers the VIM (VImproved) editor over Emacs though he prefers GNU Nano as his favourite editor as "when I need to edit a system file it has to be quick and direct". Graham prefers Mozilla Firefox and Epiphany over Opera, Internet Explorer, and Konqueror (though commends the latter as it is free software). Also he uses GFTP for FTP transfers and Pidgin for instant messaging. He uses the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution, however he wishes to try out Debian, Mandriva, Gentoo, and Slackware. He also wishes to experiment with FreeBSD, FreeDOS, ReactOS, OpenSolaris, Minix 3 and Haiku. He currently programs almost exclusively in Gambas occasionally using QBasic, Visual Basic and Game Maker (though specifically not 7); he web develops using the Bluefish editor. He uses OpenOffice.org for all productivity suite usage , mostly for writing (using GEdit as his main text editor) and he uses XMMS, MPlayer, and Audacity for all his audio needs. For graphics he prefers KolourPaint, GIMP, and KIconEdit.
Projects Graham is BDFL in
1. Piga Nation (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
2. Gambas Genie (For Linux, Made in Gambas, Some Source Released)
3. PS-Tech-1 (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
4. Piga Brain (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
5. 2-Step (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
6. Tux's Adventure (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
7. Free Empires: Age of War (For FreeDos, Made in QBasic)
8. Piga Animator (For Linux, Made in Gambas)
Released Software
- Donut Quest (2006)
Graham's Other Roles
- Assistant Moderator of the Blood Wiki (founded 2008).
- Head Moderator of the Blood Wiki Shogo Sub-Section (founded 2008).
- Author of A Game Development Essay (2008).
- Symel Gif Animations (2006-2007)
- Curator of the Blood Wiki Fan Art Archive (founded 2008).
- Contributor to Wikipedia (2006 onward).
- Head Editor of the Tome of Blood collection of fan fiction (2008).
- Head Editor of the Shogo: The Expanded Canon collection of fan fiction, author of Shogo: The Aftermath (2008).
- Occasional contributor towards the Brogo web comic strip (2005-2008).
- Assistant developer of the former Klingon Web Development.
