Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq'[1] or 'Zippy'[2] ) is a podcaster, developer and author. He became a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force,[3] an invited expert on the W3C HTML Working Group and is an acknowledged commentator on DOM Scripting and JavaScript techniques.
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![]() Stuart Langridge at Yahoo! BBC Hackday 2007 at Alexandra Palace | |
Born | January 30, 1976 |
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Podcasts
Langridge is best known as a presenter of the now defunct LugRadio, which was a free software podcast in the UK. Along with Jono Bacon, he was the longest-serving member of the team and often served to incite discussion about issues that more directly related to software freedom.[4] In LugRadio he frequently advocated freedom, yet despite this often attracted criticism for using proprietary software.[5]
Langridge was involved in the Shot of Jaq podcast, in collaboration with his former Lugradio co-host Jono Bacon. He's now a part of the Bad Voltage podcast, together with Jono Bacon and Jeremy Garcia (founder of LinuxQuestions.org). Bryan Lunduke (founder of Jupiter Broadcasting) was also a founder member of the Bad Voltage podcast but has since moved on due to other commitments. The podcast first aired in October 2013.
Programming
His current projects include Jokosher, a multi-track audio editor for GNOME, and Jackfield, a program to run Mac OS X Dashboard widgets under GNOME.
Career
In January 2009 Langridge joined Canonical as a developer and left the company in 2013 to work as a freelancer for Kryogenix's consulting.[6] At Canonical he worked on the Desktop Couch[7] for Ubuntu in his role as Canonical Ltd. staffer.
Author
Langridge has written two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia,[8] and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache[9] (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog[8] during 2005.