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This article will present a list of the '''technical and specialized skills''' I have as wells as links to articles I have written on each of them. I have been actively and professionally involved with the majority of the following since May 2000 (see: ''[[Curriculum Vitae]]'' for details).

*Legend:
*:[[Image:25per.png]] = beginner
*:[[Image:50per.png]] = basic
*:[[Image:75per.png]] = intermediate
*:[[Image:100per.png]] = advanced

==Computer operating systems==
*[[Image:100per.png]] Primary OS: [[Linux]] (32-bit/64-bit; distros: [[CentOS]] {favourite}, [[SuSE]], [[Mandriva Linux|Mandriva]], Slackware, and Ubuntu)
*[[Image:25per.png]] [[Gentoo]] (still learning but ''loving'' this distro!)
*[[Image:50per.png]] CoreOS
*[[Image:50per.png]] Unix (used this during my time in [[:Category:Academia|academia]])
*[[Image:50per.png]] Mac OS

==Cloud computing and virtual environments==
* KVM
* [[:Category:XenServer|XenServer]]
* [[:Category:OpenStack|OpenStack]]
* [[:Category:Qstack|Qstack]]
* [[Ansible]]
* [https://www.chef.io/ Chef]
* [https://www.vagrantup.com/ Vagrant]
* [https://sensuapp.org/ Sensu]
* [https://www.nagios.org/ Nagios]
* [[Docker]]
* [http://rancher.com/ Rancher]
* [http://kubernetes.io/ Kubernetes]
* [https://www.terraform.io/ Terraform]
* [[:Category:AWS|Amazon Web Services (AWS)]]
* [[:Category:Rackspace|Rackspace]]
* [[:Category:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]]
* [[RabbitMQ]]
* [https://www.go.cd/ GoCD]

==Computer languages, scripting, etc==
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[Python]] (+[http://pandas.pydata.org/ Pandas]) &mdash; 2006-present
*[[Image:100per.png]] Perl (+CGI) &mdash; 1999-present
*[[Image:75per.png]] [[C programming language|C]] (+MPI/[[MPICH]]) &mdash; 2000-2012
*[[Image:50per.png]] ''Fortran 77'' &mdash; 2004-2010
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[MySQL]] &mdash; 2002-present

===Web Oriented===
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[PHP]] (+PEAR, Smarty)
*[[Image:100per.png]] RESTful APIs (especially via [[curl|cURL]] and/or Python's [https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html urllib] module; see [[:Category:Rackspace|this article]] for lots of examples)
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS; I use [http://getbootstrap.com/ Bootstrap] for all of my projects)
*[[Image:100per.png]] HTML/XHTML
*[[Image:75per.png]] [https://www.djangoproject.com/ Django]
*[[Image:25per.png]] [http://www.web2py.com/ web2py]
*[[Image:25per.png]] ''Ajax''
*[[Image:50per.png]] ''JavaScript''
*[[Image:25per.png]] ''SOAP''
*[[Image:50per.png]] [[Rewrite engine|mod_rewrite]] / [[.htaccess]] / [[Robots Exclusion Standard|robots.txt]]

===Shell scripting languages and techniques===
  see: [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools]] and [[:Category:Scripting languages]] for detailed listing.
*[[Image:75per.png]] [[Awk|awk / gawk]]
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[sed]]
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[Bash]]
*[[Image:25per.png]] [[zsh]] (my newest and favourite shell. Still learning all that it has to offer, which is a lot!)
*[[Image:50per.png]] csh / tcsh
*[[Image:100per.png]] man (i.e., creating man pages for custom apps)
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[Make|make / gmake]] (I use this for more than just compiling code!)
*[[Image:100per.png]] [[Regular expression|regular expressions]]

===Graphical scripts===
*[[Image:50per.png]] [[PostScript]] (and PDF)
*[[Image:75per.png]] [[R programming language|R (programming language)]]
*[[Image:50per.png]] [[TeX]] / [[LaTeX]]
* ImageMagick

==Linux Systems Administration, Networking, and Security==
''Note: Everything listed here is Linux-related.''
* Remote login, file transfer, etc.: [[Secure Shell|SSH]] (+scp), [[Rsync (command)|rsync]], FTP, [[dsh]] ([https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html Distributed Shell]), sshpass, [[GNU parallel]]
* Firewall: [[iptables]] (via the CLI and, e.g., [http://www.gibraltar.at/ Gibralter])
* [[:Category:Linux troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]] toolbox: iostat, [[sysstat]], [[tcpdump]], [[ethtool]], [[netcat]] / nc, telnet, ps, dmesg, top / htop, free, dmidecode, mtr, bwm-ng, ping / fping, dig, traceroute, /proc files, /var/log files, [[curl]], wget, [[strace]], [[find]], lsof, [[lspci]], modprobe/lsmod, [[netstat]], grep, etc.
* [[crontab]]
* Network filesystems: NFS, NTFS, NAS, [[Samba]], etc.
* Tape drives ([[mt|mt/st]])
* Email Server (e.g., [[Postfix]])
* Printing: [[CUPS]]
* openPBS
* GPG / PGP
* Etc., etc.

==Databases==
* [[MySQL]] / MariaDB / Percona
* SQLite

==Web Applications==
''Note: The following is an incomplete list.''
* [[LAMP]] ([[Linux]] / [[Apache HTTP Server]] / [[MySQL]] / [[PHP]])
* Nginx
* WikiMedia &mdash; the web app running this site.
* Django
* [[WordPress]] (+[http://bbpress.org/ bbPress]; see: [http://blog.christophchamp.com/ my personal blog].)
* Drupal (see: [http://drupal.christophchamp.com/ my personal drupal page]. Note that I also [http://drupal.org/user/1891942 develop modules] for Drupal)
* [[phpBB]] (+MODs, SEOs, and Fetch All) (see: [http://forum.christophchamp.com/ my personal phpBB forum]. Note that this is a private forum not open to the public.)
* Smarty
* Coppermine Photo Gallery

==Software (*nix)==
  see: [[:Category:Bioinformatics]] and [[:Category:Crystallography]] for more.
* Previous developer / programmer / maintainer of: [[Pymmlib]], [[TLSMD]], [[Raster3D]]
* [https://www.wireshark.org/ Wireshark]
* [[ImageMagick]]
* [[BLAST]] (standalone and webserver)
* [[Clustal]]
* [[:Category:Ccp4|CCP4]] (contributor)
* [[:Category:EMBOSS|EMBOSS]]
* [[MrBayes]]
* [[CHARMm|CHARMM]]
* [[Daughter of Turnip|DOT]]
* [[GnuPlot]] (+C API), Grace / xmgrace
* [[RasMol]], [[Jmol]], [[PyMOL]] (+scripting)
* [http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ matplotlib]
* [http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage] (System for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation)
* [[GIMP]] (+various image generating techniques)
* OpenOffice / LibreOffice
* [[vi|vi/vim]] (used for pretty much everything I do)
* Etc, etc. (Linux has been my primary OS for work and home use since 1999)

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