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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 🖫 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.
It’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:
Let’s find the lowest common denominator of all platforms.
Well … maybe this denominator is infinite.
But hey, this means it is a hard challenge to find it!
So let’s start! 😄
If you speak german, then feel free to read my blog pages about “the good old times” 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:
| 😎 | Name: | Daro-Sintem Ruffelabn Par Mube kistilo iben greddar |
| 🏭 | Profession: | Software Developer. |
| 🏠 | Home: | 1100 Vienna, Austria. |
| 🎤 | Languages: | german (kind of), english (kind of) |
| 📱 | Phone: | Android 12, PinePhone, but still dreaming of my discarded Windows Phone 10 |
| 💍 | Married with: | C++ (over 15 years, true love with some rare quarrels) |
| 💌 | Flings with: | ZIG (Python too, but only for cash) |
| 🏆 | Largest solo project: | 1.4 million lines |
| 🖮 | Favorite keyword: | __declspec(naked) |
| 💻 | Favorite platforms: | Intel Atom, ARMv7/8, RISC-V |
| 💣 | Favorite opcode: | 0x90 |
| 📰 | Favorite blog: | The Old New Thing |
| ⌛ | Favorite OS: | Windows IoT, Debian, postmarketOS |