Ted Roche
tedroche@tedroche.com
| Ted Roche learned to program BASIC on a PDP-4 at the age of 15. He was
conferencing and IM'ing on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System in the late
1970s. (IM and chat rooms are old. So's Ted.) He shipped his first
commercial app in 1978, which ran on a WANG 2200. His first public
domain software was a quad-density Epson printer driver for the
Commodore 64 GEOS operating system, hand-coded in 6502 assembler. Amigas
were his favorite computers, although PCs are getting better. He ran the
electrical plant on a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine until
the Russians gave up, and then there wasn't any challenge in it any
more. He has coded with "ohs."
Ted Roche is the owner of Ted Roche & Associates, a software development
and consulting company based in Contoocook, New Hampshire USA. TR&A
develops and maintains database-intensive web sites and rich-client
applications for clients in a range of industries from wholesale
commodities to produce to financial services, manufacturing and
insurance. Software at TR&A is produced in the presence of nuts. A
former nine-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Ted now spends
his time developing Free / Open Source solutions using Linux, Apache.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python and Ruby. If you'd like to contact Ted
for help on your project, his contact information can be found at
www.tedroche.com.
Ted is author of Essential SourceSafe, co-author of the award-winning
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro series, and a contributor to five other
FoxPro books. He wrote 50 monthly Q&A columns for "FoxPro Advisor" and
lead articles for that magazine and much-missed FoxTalk technical
journal. After serving as lead author for the FoxPro Distributed
exam (along with fellow lead author Whil Hentzen), Ted passed the tests
to be a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (in the Visual Studio 6
era) and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Windows NT). He currently
holds a MySQL Core Certification and has held past certifications as
First Responder, Senior Lifesaver, CPR, NASDS SCUBA diver and Throttleman.
In his spare time, Ted is the leader of the Central New Hampshire Linux
User group and a board member of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User
Group, www.gnhlug.org.
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