About Me
I am Jochen Kupperschmidt, living in Oldenburg, Germany. My interests cover computers and stuff and being creative with them – usually by building Web applications and coding in general. I obtained a Diplom in computer science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
This website is my place to archive some thoughts and cleaned-up code for my own reference, but also for others who might have the same need or just seek inspiration.
Yes, the picture is older than half a decade.
A Little History
Back somewhere around 1990 or so, I started with a 386SX, DOS, and Geoworks. After many years with Windows 3.11, 95, and XP as my main system, but experiencing with Linux on other machines in parallel, I finally switched to Linux (currently Ubuntu) as my desktop operating system (while Debian stays my first choice for servers). I'm trying to dig deeper into FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Arch Linux as well.
My main interest is software development with a focus on Web applications, but I also learn new things about network and graphics programming every now and then as well. As the software released on this website suggests, I have programmed in various languages (presently, I focus on Python and Ruby), and I'm still trying to learn new ones (like Haskell, Lisp, Groovy, and Erlang).
While I've worked a lot with relational databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, I'm eager to find out more about products with other approaches, like CouchDB and Tokyo Cabinet/Tokyo Tyrant.
Another interesing area to me is electronics, and I'm looking forward to do more stuff on the Arduino platform.
From time to time, I tend to do (preferably) bargain buys on computer literature. When space is low (I begin to lose track at 100+), BookCrossing comes into play.
However, I do other stuff, too. But I'm a nerd, an this is my nerd page, so this is all you get here ;)