Welcome My name is Jay Palat, and I'm yet another geek on the net. My day job is developing Java applications on WebSphere for IBM. I am a Certified IT Specialist. I lead engagments as a technical lead, one part architect, one part devleoper 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 a year and a half, 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 Virtualization, using both VMWare and Xen, starting to explore KVM. I'm a big fan of Firefox and devleoped my first plugin last year. I've fiddled with Perl and developed a few serious apps with PHP. I'm playing around with Ruby, Project Zero/WebSphere sMash and Groovy. 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.