| Stuart Langridge | |
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Stuart Langridge at Yahoo! BBC Hackday 2007, at Alexandra Palace |
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| Born | January 30, 1976 |
| Residence | Stourbridge, UK[1] |
Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq'[2] or 'Zippy'[3] ) is the author of two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia,[4] and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache[5] (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog[4] during 2005. Langridge is a member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force,[6] an invited expert on the W3C HTML Working Group and is an acknowledged commentator on DOM Scripting and JavaScript techniques.
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. In addition, he works on Desktop Couch in his role as Canonical Ltd. staffer.
Despite this, Langridge is perhaps 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 around issues that more directly related to software freedom.[7] In LugRadio he frequently advocated freedom, yet despite this often attracted criticism for using proprietary software.[8]
Langridge has recently been involved in the Shot of Jaq podcast, in collaboration with his former Lugradio co-host Jono Bacon.
In January 2009 Langridge joined Canonical as a developer.