On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Leo Sutic wrote: > All, > > since I have been given the karma required to put stuff into CVS, > I'll follow the good example set by the other committers and give > a short presentation of myself. (Especially since my becoming a > committer has restored the physical constant "number-of-Leos-on-avalon-dev", > until L.Simmons gets back.)
So, welcome Leo :) > Right then... > > My name is Leo Sutic, and I am 23 years old. I work as a developer > at Inspire Infrastructure. When I started playing around with computers > the operating system of choice was TSO/CICS. Uh, good old stuff! During my IBM OS/390 days I've never heard people saying TSO/CICS are "operating systems" (but this seems to be a matter of taste ;) > Then the path went over > C64 to PC, and language-wise from Basic to Pascal to x86 Assembly to > C++ to Java. I have dabbled in COBOL, too, but that's strictly > between you and me. > > I am working towards a civil engineering degree in computer science > (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), but that's been > put on the back burner while I work here. > > I joined Avalon-dev since I needed to understand it in order to > understand Cocoon 2.0. While cocoon-dev is nice, avalon-dev > has a special place in my heart since it is here that I've learnt > the most about software architecture. If it is true what Gerhard says > that I have excellent knowledge of different design patterns, it is > because people like Berin, Peter, Paul, Giacomo, Donald, Gerhard, Carsten, > and many more have shared their knowledge on this list. Sharing knowledge pays back soon. > My current avalon-related project is to port Avalon to C++, as I firmly > believe that the patterns used in Avalon can be reapplied in C++ and in > other areas than server side programming. The attempt has stalled due to > workload, but I intend to push it forward as soon as possible. Hmm... there is no easy way to change implementation of roles in a dll/so environment, isn't it? Giacomo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
