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Hi!
This web page is all about my private software development projects and
interests. The names GATE
and OpenGATE
come from a C/C++ library project
I started years ago and has nothing to do with other projects and companies
that use similar names.
Just think about a real gate or door that takes you to another
class room.
It all started in the mid nineties with an old second-hand 80386 with DOS ๐ซ and Windows 3.11. After some weeks of random exploration, I found QBASIC.EXE and its internal documentation.
It shaped my path of life. I started to love programming PCs and to explore the possibilities of our new digital world.
I switched from BASIC to Pascal, Visual Basic, Assembler, PHP and some other scripting languages. And finally I landed in the world of C and C++.
After years of programming in the background, I became a full-time software developer in 2007.
Itโs my passion to find special solutions in system service programming and to write library layers to make platform-dependent behavior more platform-independent.
My development motto is:
Letโs find the lowest common denominator of all platforms.
Well โฆ maybe this denominator is infinite.
But hey, this means it is a hard challenge to find it!
So letโs start! ๐
If you speak german, then feel free to read my blog pages about โthe good old timesโ and some anecdotes about my trials and errors as a programmer.
And if you have questions about this project or the site, you can contact me by mail.
Facts and fun facts about me:
๐ | Name: | Daro-Sintemย Ruffelabnย Parย Mubeย kistiloย ibenย greddar |
๐ญ | Profession: | Software Developer. |
๐ | Home: | 1100 Vienna, Austria. |
๐ค | Languages: | german (kind of), english (kind of) |
๐ฑ | Phone: | Android 12, PinePhone, but still dreaming of my discarded Windows Phone 10 |
๐ | Married with: | C++ (over 15 years, true love with some rare quarrels) |
๐ | Flings with: | ZIG (Python too, but only for cash) |
๐ | Largest solo project: | 1.4 million lines |
๐ฎ | Favorite keyword: | __declspec(naked) |
๐ป | Favorite platforms: | Intel Atom, ARMv7/8, RISC-V |
๐ฃ | Favorite opcode: | 0x90 |
๐ฐ | Favorite blog: | The Old New Thing |
โ | Favorite OS: | Windows IoT, Debian, postmarketOS |