Wednesday, 01 April 2009 05:41
Rene recently won our April Thank You Award. Like all winners, we asked him a few questions with regards to his activity in the Haiku community:
1) How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills?
I am 29 and at the moment I do software engineering for a telecom consulting company (mainly we build custom solutions involving Asterisk and other Voice-over-IP solutions).
2) Your nomination, it says: "for his work on Tracker and fixes of messaging inthe kernel and much more". How difficult (or easy) was it to accomplish these tasks?
That varies a lot by the problem :) Parts of Tracker are messier than others, and depending on the problem it can get quite hairy. The kernel messaging problem was somewhat intimidating since I hadn't ever really tinkered with the kernel code much, but with much thanks to the ever patient Ingo, I managed to work my way through.
Have you done other things these past two months that we missed and that you'd consider even more interesting or successful?
Offhand, not for the moment, I've been tinkering with a modified scheduler lately, but that's not really what I'd call complete or successful at this point.
3) What would you love to have that would make working on Haiku easier?
Assuming I understood your question correctly, a somewhat friendlier userland debugger would be nice, but for me that's about it, I tend to operate a bit more minimalistic in terms of development and debugging and prefer just a syntax editor + console to an IDE.
4) What interesting book, band, podcast, website, magazine, movie, TV show etc. would you like to recommend. (You can pick more than one item). Tell us why you picked it in one or two sentences.
I did read a very neat book recently by David Brin titled "Earth". It was very well written and particularly interesting since it seems to touch on a lot of the environment-related events in recent years, though somewhat unintentionally since it is in fact more in the realm of science fiction (at least to my awareness we don't have a small black hole at the center of the Earth at this point ;).
1) How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills?
I am 29 and at the moment I do software engineering for a telecom consulting company (mainly we build custom solutions involving Asterisk and other Voice-over-IP solutions).
2) Your nomination, it says: "for his work on Tracker and fixes of messaging inthe kernel and much more". How difficult (or easy) was it to accomplish these tasks?
Have you done other things these past two months that we missed and that you'd consider even more interesting or successful?
3) What would you love to have that would make working on Haiku easier?
4) What interesting book, band, podcast, website, magazine, movie, TV show etc. would you like to recommend. (You can pick more than one item). Tell us why you picked it in one or two sentences.
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I'd like to point you to this phantastic audio book: "Singularity" by Bill DeSmedt (http://podiobooks.com/title/singularity). It's hard science fiction posing the hypothesis that the Tunguska incident was the impact of a primordial micro black hole hitting earth. It's also an exciting spy thriller. Check it out!
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