Michael Holve
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Michael Holve | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American and German |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Known for | An early Linux website |
| Website | litpixel |
Michael Holve is an American programmer, Linux practitioner, and web content writer.
Computing career
[edit]Holve was programming in BASIC from age 10, followed by Pascal, Prolog and C.[1] He is a Linux advocate and was a Solaris Insider. He started a Linux website in 1994, Everything Linux, which came to feature a "Quickcam page" broadcasting a still image every few minutes automatically to a website, an instance of what would later be called "lifecasting"—showing the world Holve's daily life. In an effort to ease adoption of this new technology on Linux, Holve wrote a HOW-TO on the subject and distributed shell scripts to handle the task in the public domain. The site went on to include articles in a HOW-TO format, and a forum which allowed a community to form. Some visitors contributed articles to the site. Other websites included Everything Mac and Everything Unix which catered to their specific communities.
Holve wrote TkApache, an early GUI for managing the Apache web server. Version 1.0 was released into the public domain at ApacheCon on October 15, 1998. TkApache was written in Perl 5.x, using the Perl/Tk module as a means to create the GUI.
Personal life
[edit]In high school, Holve took all available photography courses. Later, working professionally with a career in technology, he pursued an Associates Degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology for Advertising, Art & Design with a minor in photography (mainly studio, lighting and portraiture).[citation needed] A current project includes an informational web site for users of the Leica M system, La Vida Leica!.[2]
Software by Holve
[edit]- TkApache – GUI for the Apache web server
- Mohawk – GUI for the Apache web server
- iVote – High-performance Perl/mod-perl visual voting system
- CPU Status – Status of Sun (SPARC/Intel) system CPUs via CGI
References
[edit]- ^ "LinkedIn profile of Michael Holve". linkedin.com.
- ^ Williams, Alex (19 September 2012). "Leica Cameras, Favored by Celebrities". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
