I spend a large portion of my free time developing and exploring
software and software technologies. I recommend reading my website
for more details. See
computer skills, below.
I also have created and maintained several intelligent
websites and online communities for years,
TASvideos being a currently active example of both.
I am an experienced programmer in a multitude of programming languages
(C++ and PHP being the firmest) and a few microcontroller platforms,
and I have more than seven years of experience of using relational
databases such as MySQL in commercial products.
I also enjoy reading source code, and take pride in being good at that.
I like POSIX systems.
I use Linux as my primary operating system (Debian and Gentoo distributions).
I also use Windows, but only if I can install Cygwin in it.
I know HTML4 and CSS very well.
My favourite programming language, from a linguistic point of view,
is currently
Lua. It has the most complete set
of features I like. (Javascript is also nice.)