Welcome My name is Jay Palat, and I'm yet another geek on the net. My day job is developing Web/Portal/Enterprise applications on WebSphere for IBM. I am a Certified IT Specialist. I lead engagments as a technical lead, one part architect, one part developer and one part admin. The rest of the time I'm exploring technology in different directions. I'm a fan of Linux, running various distros since Red Hat 5.0. I've been using Ubuntu as my fulltime workstation for over few years, and I have no regrets on the subject. I've recently started exploring the OSX side of things and having fun with shiny hardware.

I'm a big fan of Firefox and devleoped my first plugin in 2007. I've fiddled with Perl and developed a few serious apps with PHP. I'm the creator of Library List for the iPhone. I've started working in Python, building desktop and Web applications. I've got an itch to learn functional languages like LISP and Erlang, but haven't found the right app yet. I'm a big reader, an ok runner and occasional scribe.