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Brad Fitzpatrick.

Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of many popular free software projects. Image File history File links Brad_Fitzpatrick. ... Image File history File links Brad_Fitzpatrick. ... is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area  Ranked 26th  - Total 56,272 sq mi (145,743 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 199 miles (320 km)  - % water 0. ... A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. ... Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project (the GNU head), the Linux kernel mascot Tux the Penguin, and the FreeBSD daemon Free software is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation[1] to refer to software that can be used, studied, and modified without...


Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science and minored in German at the University of Washington in Seattle. While there, he developed LiveJournal as an extension of a database-driven method he had been using to update his personal journal. Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area  Ranked 26th  - Total 56,272 sq mi (145,743 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 199 miles (320 km)  - % water 0. ... Beaverton is a city located in Washington County, Oregon, seven miles west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


LiveJournal eventually became a full-time job and then a company, which he called Danga Interactive. In January 2005, Fitzpatrick sold Danga to Six Apart, reportedly for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock.[1] He was named chief architect of Six Apart.[2] As of 2007, he is no longer active in LiveJournal's development.[3] He lives in Noe Valley, near San Francisco, California, and is an avid scuba diver and motorcyclist. Danga Interactive is a software and Internet company most widely known for its LiveJournal service. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15... Six Apart Ltd. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Six Apart Ltd. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Noe Valley is a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Scuba diving is swimming underwater while using self-contained breathing equipment. ... A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ...


Free Software

Some noteworthy free software projects by Fitzpatrick:

  • memcached, a memory caching system designed to ease database load on large webserving applications, and used in many other situations as well;
  • Perlbal, a load balancer and reverse proxy;
  • MogileFS, a distributed file system;
  • djabberd, a Jabber server;
  • PicPix, a photo-hosting service.

Since many of these applications were motivated by the real-world needs of LiveJournal, they are often useful for other database-driven websites, and are often used in combination to power many popular websites (including Wikipedia). memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. ... Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. ... MogileFS was created by Danga Interactive for use with LiveJournal. ... Official logo of the Jabber Software Foundation Jabber is a collection of open, real-time communication technologies built on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). ... Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...


Before LiveJournal, Fitzpatrick created FreeVote, a site hosting web-based voting booths. More recently, he created the OpenID single sign-on mechanism. OpenID is a decentralized system to verify ones online identity. ... Single sign-on (SSO) is a specialized form of software authentication that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems. ...


References

  1. ^ Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal (5 January 2005)
  2. ^ Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! (5 January 2006)
  3. ^ lj drama (31 May 2007)

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Major Thomas (Broken-Hand) Fitzpatrick, from Cavan, Indian Agent to the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes brought peace to the Plains Indians of North America in 1851 at Fort Laramie.
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