David Tansley

David Tansley is a Senior Systems Administrator at Ace Global Markets, a Lloyd's of London Underwriting agency. Among his many duties are looking after Sybase servers and multiple Linux and UNIX boxes and all their applications. He baby-sits firewalls. He is also very keen on web enabling front ends, using PHP, of course. He has had numerous articles published on the web and in magazines notably in Enterprise Linux. David firmly believes in the use of Linux in solving todays business needs, he tries to convert anybody he has a technical conversation with. He is also the author of LINUX and UNIX Shell Programming. David enjoys Competition Karate, F1 racing and air displays.