Shaun Flisakowski
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Shaun's solitaire game has become one of the most popular charity-ware games on the web.  He's currently a software programmer for FileMaker.  Learn more...

Charity-ware Products:

Infinite Patience Solitaire

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Commercial Products and Services:

• Calendar - A perpetual calendar.
  

• Wander - A BoulderDash-style puzzle game.
  

• cTool - A C lexer/parser (with source code).
  

• Meme - A language design.
  

• nanoScheme - A tiny interpreter of a subset of Scheme.
  

• Unix software
  
  

Favorite Charities:

The Long Now Foundation
The American Civil Liberties Union

Other supported charities:

Doctors without Borders, Amnesty International
Accion International, Habitat for Humanity
The Red Cross/Red Crescent Society

Bio:

I work for FileMaker, they make FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Unlimited, and FileMaker Server.  I work on the data-access layer underlying all of the (future) products. FileMaker is a subsidiary of Apple Computer.

Previously I worked briefly for SecureSoft, a startup in silicon valley doing some security-related software. My work there was to design and implement a deductive database, basically a simplified (and therefore more efficient) version of Coral.

Before that, I worked for Informix on their XPS query optimizer. I worked on an algorithm to efficiently divide the system's available memory between the various iterator nodes in a query.

Before that, I attended UW-Madison, where I obtained my Master's degree in Computer Science while working full-time as a research assistant in the database group.

Learn more at Shaun's web-site.