Profile: languages, technology, special interest, tools & apps

Skills or products that are striked out like this means that I haven’t used them for a loooong time.

• php with pear & smarty, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JScript, XML/XSL, JSON
• Git and GitHub

Web Development Frameworks: using CakePHP but I like to ride the Rails, too.
Happy with prototype & script.aculo.us, delighted by JQuery.

• Ruby – thanks to Rails I like to have that fully dynamic OOP enabled language handy for my daily tasks.
• Visual C++ since ‘95 with MFC/ATL, Turbo-C/Borland C++
• Bash since 1998
• IDE: Aptana Studio, NetBeans, TextMate (no IDE).
• Java with Eclipse
• ASP, Perl, WML
• Pascal – from ‘84 to ‘97 – UCSD-Pascal, Turbo-Pascal, Borland-Pascal for Windows, Delphi
• Several BASIC dialects since ‘80 i.e.: Visual Basic, VBA/OfficeXP Development, VBScript and many more.

• EC2 & S3 since 2007
• EBS and CloudFront since 2009
• VMware Server since 2005, VMWare Fusion
• Apache, IIS4, IIS5, IIS6
• mySQL, MS-SQL-Server
• nitf: News Industrie Text Format
• Database-backed web applications, Client/Server and 3-Tier Applications, OOP programming, WIN32-API, MFC, ActiveX, COM/DCOM/COM+, SQL
• Microsoft Developer Network Universal from 1996 to 2002. Later I focused to LAMP/OpenSource
• CMS and blog engines:
  WordPress with plugin and widget development, PostNuke, b2evolution
• Forum solutions: phpBB with MODs and styles development.
• Host, Service and Network Monitoring: Nagios and Nagios-PlugIn Development
• Reverse-Proxy and Load-Balancer Solution with Pound und Nginx
• Redundant Linux-Solutions with Fake (HA, IP-Takeover, Arp-Spoof)
• Redundant and Loadbalancing Database Solutions with mySQL Replikation and Cluster
• Network Vulnerabilty Scanner: Nessus
• Website Analyse Tools & Ad-Systems:
  Google AdSense, AdWords (since 2003) & Analyltics, Affili.net
  AWStats, webalizer, Sawmill, StatCounter, IVW (since 1999), Yahoo Search Marketing
• e-commerce solution: osCommerce
• Linear and 2D Barcode-Systems: Barcode Solutions since 1994
• English fluent in written and spoken

• OS:
  GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), Apple Mac OS X
  Debian since “Potato” 2001
  Ubuntu since “Hoary Hedgehog” 2005
  OS X since “Panther” 2005 with Fink and now with MacPorts
  Formerly: Suse-Linux, RedHat-Linux, Windows Server 2003 WebEdition, Windows 2000 Server & Advanved Server, Windows XP Professional & Home Edition, NT4 Server und Workstation, NT3.51, Win95/98,ME, Win3.x, PC/MS-DOS, CP/M, Apple DOS & AppleProDOS, UCSD-Pascal

• In my spare time:
  2006-2008: tried to rise from rags to riches in SecondLife with some neat lines of Linden Scripting Language.
  2009: Objective-C 2.0, XCode – guess what? Yes, having fun with the iPhone SDK. Sad thing is: I do not have time for giving my ideas birth…

• Next products and skills I want to look at:
  NoSQL with CouchDB,
  homebrew replacing MacPorts