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About Me

I am a software developer, working on a cutting-edge web applications on a daily basis and on the GNU Project at night.
I'm highly creative with excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Free software projects

Here is a list of the free software projects I contribute(d) to:

• GNU Anubis -- an SMTP message submission daemon. It is an official GNU package and I am its principal developer.
• GNU Mailutils -- a suite of utilities for electronic mail. It is also an official GNU package. I have worked on various parts.
• GNU Bison -- a general-purpose parser generator. I created the XML Automaton Report, implemented, and wrote XSLTs.
• GNU Dico -- a modular DICT server. Added Python module, Dicoweb interface, and mediawiki.py.
• Cheetah News -- a personal web-based news aggregator.
• gLifestream -- a free lifestream platform and social activity reader. [sample]
• FOAF.Vix -- a visualizer and relation explorer for FOAF files.
• IMM -- a memory testing tool, designed as a wrapper around the standard libc memory allocation routines.
• blogRight! -- a small blogging engine. [sample]
• WebXiangpianbu -- a photo album organizer. [sample]
• Fetchmail -- a mail retrieval and forwarding utility. I wrote the ESMTP authentication code.
• Beagle -- a tool for indexing and searching your data. I wrote Lisp files handling and filter.
• Tornado -- a scalable, non-blocking web server. I slightly improved the template execution performance.
• Mono -- free, open source version of the Microsoft .NET development platform. [#] [#] [#]
• Texinfo -- the GNU documentation system. I wrote the txi-pl.tex and gave some ideas.
• Bug reports/hints include: GNU Tar, SASL, gettext, Robots, Emacs, pyRdfa.

Translations:

• I am a member of the Translation Project - [Team PL].

Various Notes

• Simple Compiler Techniques
• Bison XML Automaton Report

Links to the pages I find interesting

• The GNU Project and its philosophy
• Wikipedia
• Slashdot
• IMDb
• The Jargon File
• music links: P, L, R, G, B, P, O, D, R, Q, N, P, A