A CHICKEN (Scheme), PHP, Python and JavaScript programming Photographer and Whiskey enthusiast.
In my whole career my job was never 9-to-5. Choosing to be a web engineer is choosing to learn constantly. I often say that my job is my hobby. Things I learn in my personal time I can later apply in my job and vice versa.
I have a strong affinity with Open Source technology. I will always prefer to work on an open work station, preferably my own personal station containing a toolset primarily consisting of Debian as my OS, Emacs as my code editor, Mercurial or GiT as my version control tools. Darktable, Gimp, Inkscape and Blender as my graphical companions
For the sake of teaching others and having my own take at the web, I run my personal website/blog over at shisaa.jp.
On this blog I try to teach people to get the most out of their Unix systems and to try and show people that using open source software is good, fun and important.
Skimming trough my blog you will find extensive tutorials on setting up your own, high performance mail server using the famous Postfix mail delivery agent among other things.
Besides Unix systems I have a favorite programming language called CHICKEN, which is a Scheme implementation. I recently started to teach people about how to program in this language.
I have also written about the static blog generator Nikola, which is a Python driven application to generate static websites. Static websites, as apposed to Dynamic web-sites, have the great advantage of being fast and secure. My own shisaa.jp is served statically trough the Spiffy (Scheme) web server and reaches load times of under 200 ms.
Besides Python and Scheme I also, from time to time, pick a battle with PHP when developing Drupal modules. Besides module development I have been building small to large scaled, professional and international Drupal websites from scratch for the past 4 years for a variety of customers ranging from start-ups to established firms.
Oh, and I like photography, 3D, Whiskey and have a deep interest in Japanese and Okinawan culture.
Cheers,
Tim