John R. Hall, a respected programmer, writer and Linux advocate, passed away on
September 17 at age 24.

John studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and
was the author of
Programming
Linux Games, which he wrote at age 19 while interning
with Loki Software. He later worked at Treyarch. His other interests
included flying, gaming and music.

John chronicled his battle with cancer on his blog,
War.
He and friends also formed an American Cancer Society Relay for Life
team, Team
Melanoma. John's Web page is available
here.