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 Art 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 ;)
IT stuff
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- web technologies:
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- web architecture
- adaptive screen design / scalable web layouts
- development of content models for CMS driven websites
- XHTML/HTML
- CSS
- Accessibility
- Javascript , Dynamic HTML, AJAX , basic Flash/Actionscript
- HTTP (REST) and encoding related stuff
- Python WSGI
- J2EE: JSTL, JSP, Servlets (and bits of other stuff)
- a variety of CMS systems
- PHP (mostly 4.x)
- 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 SQL
- a bit UML
- I18N / L10N
design stuff
- interaction and visual design and a bit of graphic design
- good drawing/illustration skills
- image processing (2D and basic 3D)
tools I use
OS
- Windows 7 / Vista / XP (2000)
- a bit Mac OS X
- a bit Linux (Ubuntu)
development tools
- Aptana/Eclipse, SciTE, Oxygen, XMLSpy, SVN/CVS, Ant
- Apache, Tomcat, ...
- browsers like Firefox, IE 5-8, Safari, Chrome, ...
desktop software
- OpenOffice/Thunderbird, MS Office/Outlook
- Photoshop/ImageReady, Fireworks, (Freehand)