who I am

Guess I am generally curious but it's difficult to define oneself, so this is mainly from the professional point of view...

what my interests are

Generally information science and technology. Current special interests in:

• interaction design and advanced frontend technologies (CSS, Javascript / AJAX ) and ideologies (usable and accessible websites, scalable web layouts)
• Python (and Jython)
• XML/X... (XSLT, Schemata, XForms, ...)

Also interested in art and design, comics (mostly silver age), movies and moviescores, and jazz.

what i do / have done

Currently mostly developing (conceptually, interaction designwise, and codingly) usable and accessible websites in (X)HTML/CSS and Javascript.
Server side using XML/XSLT with/or Python/Jython (and Java/PHP if it can't be helped ;) and/or a selection of CMS systems.

Became interested in the www in about as late as 1999; doing research, concept, design, development of websites professionally for a german agency since.

Before that did a Master of Arts in design at the Royal College of Art, London. Before that designed bags for 2 years for a german company after having finished a product design “ Diplom ” in Germany. Before that finished school. Before that ... - well - first thing must have been my birth which I cannot remember though ...

what i do know

general stuff

• good conceptional skills
• good communication and organizational skills
• languages: German, English, basic French, and a tiny bit of Japanese
• lots of other basic stuff of course like talking, writing, sleeping, etc ;)

design stuff

• interaction and visual design and a bit of graphic design
• good drawing/illustration skills
• image processing (2D and basic 3D)

development / IT stuff

• web technologies:

  • web and web application architecture
  • responsive or adaptive screen design / scalable web layouts
  • strong interest in UX (whatever that means ;)
  • development of content models for CMS driven websites
  • XHTML/HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript (JSON, DOM, jQuery etc., nodeJS), AJAX, Dynamic HTML (shows my age ;)
  • Accessibility
  • HTTP (REST) and encoding related stuff
  • Python WSGI
  • J2EE: JSTL, JSP, Servlets (and bits of other stuff)
  • a variety of CMS systems
  • PHP
  • basic Flash/Actionscript

• XML , RelaxNG, XForms, a bit XML Schema, Schematron, DTDs , FOAF , RSS , a bit of Topic Maps/ XTM , RDF
• XSLT /XPath and XML Processing (SAX, DOM, XOM etc.)
• Python
• Jython and basic Java
• a bit Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (XAML and C#)
• a bit SQL
• a bit UML
• I18N / L10N
• programming OS shells a bit

tools I use

OS

• Windows 7 / Vista / XP (2000)
• Windows Phone 7, a bit iOS and a bit Android
• a bit Mac OS X
• a bit Linux

development tools

• Aptana/Eclipse, Visual Studio, SciTE, Oxygen, XMLSpy, SVN/CVS, Ant
• Apache, Tomcat, ...
• browsers like Firefox, IE 5-9, Safari, Chrome, ...

desktop software

• MS Office/Outlook, OpenOffice/Thunderbird
• Photoshop/ImageReady, Fireworks, Freehand (sadly uncontinued)