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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 ๐Ÿ–ซ 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.

Itโ€™s 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:

Letโ€™s find the lowest common denominator of all platforms.

Well โ€ฆ maybe this denominator is infinite. But hey, this means it is a hard challenge to find it!
So letโ€™s start! ๐Ÿ˜„


If you speak german, then feel free to read my blog pages about โ€œthe 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:

๐Ÿ˜Ž Name: Daro-Sintemย Ruffelabnย Parย Mubeย kistiloย ibenย greddar
๐Ÿญ Profession: Software Developer.
๐Ÿ  Home: 1100 Vienna, Austria.
๐ŸŽค Languages: german (kind of), english (kind of)
๐Ÿ“ฑ Phone: Android 12, PinePhone, but still dreaming of my discarded Windows Phone 10
๐Ÿ’ Married with: C++ (over 15 years, true love with some rare quarrels)
๐Ÿ’Œ Flings with: ZIG (Python too, but only for cash)
๐Ÿ† Largest solo project: 1.4 million lines
๐Ÿ–ฎ Favorite keyword: __declspec(naked)
๐Ÿ’ป Favorite platforms: Intel Atom, ARMv7/8, RISC-V
๐Ÿ’ฃ Favorite opcode: 0x90
๐Ÿ“ฐ Favorite blog: The Old New Thing
โŒ› Favorite OS: Windows IoT, Debian, postmarketOS