Mike Pinkerton
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Mike "Pink" Pinkerton is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla browsers. He lectures on Development of Open Source Software at George Washington University.[1]
Pinkerton started working at Netscape Communications in June 1997 where he worked on the Netscape Navigator and then Mozilla browsers. While at Netscape he started development of the Camino (then Chimera) web browser with Dave Hyatt. Hyatt, whom Pinkerton inexplicably refers to as "Jinglepants,"[2] was hired by Apple Computer to work on the Safari browser and Pinkerton is now the Camino project lead. In October 2002 he started working at AOL as Netscape Communications became a division within AOL. In September 2005, he accepted a position at Google where he originally was part of their Firefox team.[3] On January 9, 2006, Pinkerton announced on his blog that he had moved to Google's "Mac Client Team".[4] Pinkerton currently works as the Technical Lead for Google Desktop for Mac.
Studied at University of California, San Diego where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science, then at Georgia Institute of Technology where he graduated with a Master's Degree in Computer Science.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Mike Pinkerton. Michael Pinkerton's Resume. Mike's Slice of Home. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
- ^ Mike Pinkerton (July 13, 2004). A little perspective, pleeeeze?!. Sucking less, on a budget. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
- ^ Time for a change. Mike Pinkerton Weblog. Mike Pinkerton (2005-09-07). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
- ^ Memoirs of a Geezer. Mike Pinkerton Weblog. Mike Pinkerton (2006-01-09). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
[edit] External links
- Mike's Slice of Home - a personal website
- Mike Pinkerton on Camino - "Open Source Developers at Google" Speaker Series
- Sucking less, on a budget - a personal weblog
- Sucking less, on a budget - previous home of his weblog from April 2002 to January 2003
- Interview with Camino project head Mike Pinkerton - a September 2004 interview with Ars Technica
