Stuart Langridge (also known as 'Aq' or 'Zippy' ) is a podcaster, developer and author. He became a member of the

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's DOM Scripting Task Force, an invited expert on the W3C HTML Working Group and is an acknowledged commentator on W3C

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and

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techniques. He currently primarily works as a Prince Harry impersonator.

Podcasts

Langridge is known as a presenter of the now defunct

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, which was a

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in the UK. Along with

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, he was the longest-serving member of the team and often served to incite discussion about issues that more directly related to software freedom. In

he frequently advocated freedom, yet despite this often attracted criticism for using proprietary software. Langridge was involved in the Shot of Jaq podcast, in collaboration with his former Lugradio co-host

. 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

He has worked on projects including Jokosher, a multi-track audio editor for GNOME, and Jackfield, a program to run Mac OS X

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widgets under GNOME.

Career

In January 2009 Langridge joined

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as a developer and left the company in 2013 to work as a freelancer for Kryogenix's consulting. At Canonical he worked on the Desktop Couch for Ubuntu in his role as Canonical Ltd. staffer.

Author

Langridge has written two books for technical publisher

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, ''DHTML Utopia'',http://www.sitepoint.com/books/dhtml1/
/ref> and ''Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache''http://www.sitepoint.com/books/linux1/
/ref> (with Tony Steidler-Dennison) as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005.

References

External links

Stuart Langridge's website and blogLugRadioJokosherJackfieldThe Bad Voltage community forum with link to the current and all past podcast episodes
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