Timothy Shields

United States

I'm a conservative Christian living in New Jersey with my wonderful wife. Life is a gift. =)

Here are some of my open source libraries:

Data Structures for .NET

Async Data Structures for .NET

Functional Graph Algorithms for .NET

GraphViz for .NET

linq-cpp: LINQ for C++11 done right

erm: a tiny language for concisely specifying and rendering entity-relationship models

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