Chris Dolan from Madison, Wisconsin

About me

I'm Chris Dolan, the creator of this site. Contact me at . I'm a software developer with a PhD in astronomy. Search Google for me and others who share my name.

Software Architecture and Development

I'm a software developer and shareholder at Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. I am a lead developer for our MediaLandscape project and manager developer for several of our clients. I'm also an active contributor to several public software projects.

As a Perl developer, I'm an active contributor to CPAN both as myself and via Clotho.

I'm a core developer for the following open source projects:

I'm a contributor to these open source projects:

Fink (software for MacOS X)
SSWF project (scripting SWF files)
Ming project (SWF output library)
Module::Build (building and packaging infrastructure for Perl modules)
CGI::Session (WWW Session maintenance for Perl)
OLE::Storage_Lite (Microsoft document reader for Perl)
Mozilla (open source web browser) [my bug lists]
PlanetPlanet (RSS aggregator; the engine behind Planet ChrisDolan)

My arch repository is at http://www.chrisdolan.net/arch/ and currently contains my contributions to the PlanetPlanet project. See my posts on the Planet-Devel email list for more details.

I'm a long-time Slashdot reader and respected contributor. I also contribute occasionally to MacSlash, use Perl and CPAN ratings.

Web Development

Individually and as part of a team, I've built many web sites. Some of my most recent volunteer projects include sites for:

The Horribly Hilly Hundreds bicycling challenge ride
Westmorland Neighborhood Association, where I live
Brian Casey, candidate for Dane County Board of Supervisors
This page!

Education Outreach

Many years ago, I created an astronomy web site about Stars and Constellations. It pretty dated now, but at the time (1996) it was unique and became fairly popular. Due to its popularity, the University of Wisconsin Astronomy Department decided to keep it after I graduated. Several of my Java applets still run nicely despite being many years old.

I contribute occasionally to the following educational projects:

Scientific Research