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A brief biography:
Born in 1972 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Spent my growing-up years in Houston, Texas. Compaq relocated me to Munich, Germany in 1997, and i moved from there to Berlin in June, 2006 to be with my loving woman. i've worked professionally with computers since 1994, and hobby-wise since Christmas of 1983. i typically spend all of my spare time developing software or reading about it, or tinkering with boardgames, wargames, and roleplaying games (old-fashioned, pen-and-paper-and-dice games, not for the computer). In fact, this domain name (Wandering Horse) was originally conceived as a name for the gaming company i wanted to create when i was 14 or so.My favourite programming language is C++, but i also know my way around C, Perl, PHP, Java(tm), ECMAScript, plus a number of quasi-languages like the bash shell, SQL, XML/XSLT and "make" (truth be told, i've written some bad-ass Makefile code in my time ;). i am proficient in a wide array of computer-related skills, can play a bit of guitar, and am a fairly prolific writer when the mood strikes, but i can do basically nothing else of any practical use.
Computing is my life, and the Free Software and Open Source movement makes that possible. i have been using Free Software tools since 1994 (the phrase "open source" didn't exist at the time), and have been posting code online since about 1998. The Open Source projects i lead, take active part in, or have contributed significant amounts of noise to within the past few years include such niche-market wonders as:
- s11n
- SpiderApe, C++ framework for extending SpiderMonkey
- toc, the other ./configure
- QUB, the Q Universal Boardgame
- CounterMoves, an online gaming 'zine
Professionally: i currently avoid work, strongly preferring to concentrate on my recovery from cancer of the tonsil. That said: if you think you've got a job for me, i am willing to work on short-term projects (less than 1 year) under the right conditions :). In particular i am intersted in C++ work on *nix platforms, but we could discuss whatever computing-related work you might need done.