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Brent Welch I am director of software architecture at Panasas, which has created a scalable, high-performace storage cluster that is the file system for many of the most powerful super computers in the top500. Panasas has job openings for great system programmers! Please email welch-at-panasas-dot-com if you are interested in a challenging job at a pre-IPO company. I live with my wife and boys and dog in Mountain View, CA. We enjoy footbag, our garden, soccer, baseball, and music. Footbag Video #1 Footbag Video #2	Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, 4th Ed. The 4th edition of my book covers Tcl/Tk 8.4. There are new chapters on multi-threaded Tcl scripts and Starkits. The Tcler's Wiki. Tcl Developer Xchange.	EXMH is a popular email user interface that runs on Linux and other UNIX systems. It is extensible, using Tcl of course, and has accumulated many cool features since its release in 1993. Exmh Wiki contains lots of information contributed by its users. TclHttpd is an extensible web server that provides an easy way to develop and deploy applications.

Personal Information

• There are a few family pictures in my album, including pictures of the Wright family on my mother's side.
• email: welch@panasas.com, welch@acm.org, brent@beedub.com
• home town: Mountain View
• employer: Panasas
• PGP and My PGP key
  key fingerprint: 94 D8 90 6A FD 9C AE 94 40 E3 C6 D6 B1 90 E0 03
• Class F license CYSA soccer
• Delgado league where our Rapids team competes.

Bio

I am currently Director of Software Architecture at Panasas, I have worked at Xerox-PARC and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. I have experience building software systems from the device driver level up through network servers, user applications, and graphical user interfaces. While getting my PhD at UC Berkeley, I designed and built the Sprite distributed file system. I am the creator of the TclHttpd web server, the exmh email user interface, and the author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.

What is BeeDub.com?

This is my permanent home on the web. Come here to find up-to-date pointers to my current work.

• Tcl Developer Xchange Open source downloads of Tcl/Tk, documentation, and a Yahoo-like catalog of Tcl web resources.
• Brent's Resume
• Exmh mail user interface.
• TclHttpd web server.
• Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.
• Sprite Project Papers including my PhD dissertation and other papers.

Some of my Friends

• John Claude Wippler
• John Ousterhout
• Rob Pike
• John LoVerso
• Bill Langbehn

Interesting Links

• Wikipedia List of File Systems
• Footbag World Wide. My wife and I won the Mixed Doubles Net title at the 1997 Footbag World Championships. We have won that event 7 times in 11 appearances in the finals since 1987!
• Pictures from the 1998 Footbag World Championships
• More pictures from the 1998 Footbag World Championships, and Still More
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). PGP key server .
• Interesting views on the JFK assasination.
• Resume of George W. Bush and a view into Bushworld
• The Rolling Stones Home Page.
• Magic Card Information. Tom Christiansens site.
• Pumpkin Seed Brittle Recipe

That's me, getting big air in footbag net. See also these two shots of another "joust" between James Harley and Brent Welch at the 1998 World Championships (preliminary rounds) in Montreal. I teamed up with James in the 'O3 Worlds where we took 3rd place.