CJ Associates Technology Consulting
Training
John Strickler has developed and presented a number of open source courses, including Python programming, Perl Programming, PHP Programming, MySQL, vi editor, and regular expressions.
His dynamic and student-focused teaching style has made him a popular repeat instructor at several Fortune 500 companies.
In the past he has presented introductory UNIX, UNIX system administration, and Unix shell scripting.
For the list of courses that John is currently presenting, click here.
Programming
John has more than 20 years experience as a developer. He has developed software for varied applications from telecommunications tools to medical library databases. Working with two other developers, John helped produce a public-library software product that is used in all fifty states and recently passed the $6,000,000 annual sales mark.
As a contract programmer, John has produced dozens of in-house applications, in Perl and C#, which interoperate with Microsoft SQL Server. These applications range from command line utilities to user-friendly GUI tools for non-technical colleagues.
He is comfortable programming in Python, Perl, C#, and C. He can get by in PHP.
A particular specialty is regular expressions, both classic Unix and Perl-compatible.
While not a certified DBA, John can create, maintain, and query databases from several different products, including MySQL and SQL Server. He has extensive exprerience using Perl and Python to access databases, as well as with creating standalone SQL scripts.