Hello World.
I’m Mark, and I do a lot of programming, designing of systems, working ridiculous hours, ranting about many things, and I am frequently guilty of re-inventing wheels (which shall henceforth be refered to as either ‘improvement’ or ‘learning’ 
. Currently, I am involved in re-inventing designing a new suite of telephone conference call back-end systems for a rapidly expanding conference call company, from the ground up.
. Currently, I am involved in Doing this kind of work on the carrier grade level involves the convergence of a lot of technologies, and there’s a truckload of R&D involved, which is bloody fantastic since I get bored too easily when there’s nothing new to learn, or not enough diversity.
I arrived in this part of the IT industry after doing some weird things:
- Five years in the games industry (hellishly boring; trust me – I’ll explain why another time)
- A few years developing bespoke systems, providing services and Linux “appliances” for businesses around South Africa
- Loads of freelance development on various platforms (mobile handsets, 8-bit embedded systems, even Windows apps)
- An entire childhood & adolescence involved (misspent?) in the demoscene. Epic fun. Low-level programming, register fiddling, cycle counting and reverse engineering is the shit!
Anyway, talk is cheap, and I’ve clogged the Intertubes quite enough!
Coming up next, something that has been a constant thorn in my side as a wretched Debian user: building custom kernels.
Yo LSD!!!
Long time no chat mate! Small world
Working down under for a company called Right Hemisphere now…You and Arri at the same gig now?
Leon
Nah we’re doing different things, but LSD was too lazy to set up his own blog and so he’s leaching off my google juice.
Really though I invited him to post here cos I realized I never get time and it would be a shame to be another-dead-blog, hopefully inject some life back into things, would welcome other guest bloggers too, hint hint.
Jislaaik, meneer Breedt!
What happened to your left hemisphere?
Nah, I’m still doing that stuff I told you about last time we spoke (telecomms), except now it’s got really interesting and challenging. I’m putting together a series of articles(?) to post here about a UDP/IP stack I wrote at work that bypasses the BSD socket layer for huge performance increases. That kinda stuff is right up my straße.
Don’t worry, RIP hasn’t become a Debian fanboy!