Name: Chris F.A. Johnson

Position: Self-employed in various capacities:

  • Cryptic cruciverbalist
  • Chess teacher
  • Computer programmer and system administrator
  • Writer
  • Web designer

Profile:

  • Chris F.A. Johnson composes cryptic crosswords for Good Times, the Canadian Magazine for Successful Retirement. In 1979, he started composing cryptics for the University of Toronto Alumni Magazine (then called the Graduate), where he worked as a graphic artist on that magazine and the staff newspaper, The Bulletin. From 1997 to 2009, he composed cryptic crosswords for the Saturday Sun.
  • Chris's first formal chess teaching was an evening course at Cambrian College, Sudbury in 1972. Since then, he has taught for the Chess'n'Math Association in Toronto public and private schools, in chess camps in Texas (Dallas and Houston), and has tutored a number of private students, both children and adult, in Toronto.
  • Using a pocket computer, Chris started programming in 1983, graduating to a Commodore 64 later that year and advancing to an Amiga in 1985. In 1990, he was introduced to Unix and learned to write shell scripts, and now works on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD systems, programming mostly with shell scripts and some C.
  • Chris has been writing computer programming articles for more than 20 years, starting with the Toronto Pet Users' Group magazine, and more recently for SysAdmin magazine and the online UnixReview.com (both now defunct). In 2004 he was approached by California publisher Apress (now moved to New York) to write a book of shell scripts. The book was published in 2005 as Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. He has recently completed a second book, Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell.
  • In 1996, Chris started his first web site, primarily to cover the 1996 Canadian Closed Chess Championships, but quickly expanding to include other interests. In the spring of 2007, he started the Woodbine & Gerrard community web site.

Web sites http://cfajohnson.com/ http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ http://torquiz.freeshell.org/ http://woodbinegerrard.com/

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