Peter D. Chatterton
E-mail:
peter@PeterChatterton.com
Home page: www.peter.chatterton.name
Telephone: 905-312-8656
Career Summary
| Software Engineer / Systems Software Programmer. | |
| Over 20 years' industry experience developing systems software. | |
| Design responsibilities on large software systems. | |
| Programmed in C and Assembler on micros, minis and mainframes. | |
| Self-taught in Java, C++ and Windows. | |
| Internet Java development on front and back ends. |
Current Activity
Some of my Projects
| Designed a Windows 95 User Interface for data propagation. | |
| Wrote a real-time Sonar display program in 'C' under QNX. | |
| Wrote a complete compiler in Assembler under OS/MVT. |
Skills Summary
| Analytical, Problem Solving and Communications abilities. | |
| Detail oriented. | |
| GUI design experience. | |
| Java development tools: Visual J++, Visual Cafe and VisualAge. | |
| JDK using Servlets, Java 1.2 and Swing. | |
| C++ using Visual C++, Borland OWL, OS/2 CSet++ and VisualAge. | |
| HTML and JavaScript. | |
| VisualAge Smalltalk. | |
| MS-DOS and QNX 'C'. | |
| Assembler - mainframe, micro and mini. |
Summary of Hardware & Software Used
| IBM PCs: | ||
| Java using Visual J++, Symantec Visual Cafe and VisualAge | 8/97 to present. * | |
| IBM Network Station / HTML / JavaScript / LiveConnect & Java | 6 months | |
| Visual C++ / MFC / WinHelp for WIN32 / Windows 95 & NT | 1 year * | |
| VisualAge / Smalltalk for OS/2 | 1 year * | |
| CSet++ / ICLUI / EPM / REXX for OS/2 | 1 year * | |
| Borland C++ / OWL for MS Windows 3.1 | 2 years * | |
| 'C' & Assembler for MS-DOS & OS/2 | 5 yrs | |
| 'C' for QNX | 1 yr | |
| UNIX: Practical knowledge of the Korn shell and the vi editor. | ||
| AES C20 (micro) Assembler | 5 yrs | |
| DATAPOINT mini: DATASHARE & Assembler | 1 yr | |
| IBM mainframes: Assembler for DOS & OS | 6 yr | |
| (* includes non-industry experience) | ||
Some of my Programs
Consulting agency management information system.
SpecsApplet Version
XML Version.
Java applets for playing Gess - a variant of chess.
Copyright 1997,1998 Peter Chatterton.
Ghost -- a short but technically interesting Java program
TruncFlowLayout -- a custom layout manager
Possible bug in Internet Explorer 4.0 JVM.
Two C++ programs
Personal
2001 Photo
Hobbies
Some crossword puzzles solving techniques.
Password Management for Anyone!
There is a very simple system of managing passwords that anyone can use,
which lets you write down your password (in effect) and which is completely secure.
This explanation is only a first pass and very difficult to read. An update is almost finished.
An article by Paul Graham about programmers that I find insightful.
From a collection of essays called "Hackers and Painter -- Big Ideas from the Computer Age".
Note: he uses the term 'Hackers' to refer to expert programmers.
NVT - Thinking without Words
Pet Peeves