Bringing serialization into the 21st century... bit by bit.
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stephan beal - stephan@s11n.net
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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. 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). |
My favourite programming language is C++, but i also know my way around Perl, PHP, Java(tm), 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. (If this counts as a skill: i'm quite proficient at growing hair.)
Computing is my life, and the Free Software and Open Source movements 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 (this project!)
- SpiderApe, C++ framework for extending SpiderMonkey
- toc, the other ./configure
- QUB, the Q Universal Boardgame
- CounterMoves, an online gaming 'zine
My CV can be found here. (Achtung: it's in German - i don't have an English copy. Since it's all to do with computing, 90% of the words are English, anyway.) My business card can be found here.
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 may be willing to work on short-term projects (less than 6 months) under the right conditions. :)