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Kay is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: Klaus Reimer
Member since: 2000-07-11 20:38:27
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Notes: Well... Let's try to describe my way to open source:

Beginning programming with Basic and Assembler on some Commodore machines (VC20, C16, C116, C64, Amiga) a long time ago, I learned programming in Turbo Pascal in 1993 at the GBA Bonn. If you want to see where it was happening take a look on that Doom 2 level.

One year later I finished my first real project, a DOS game called Tank Time, written in Turbo Pascal and Assembler. I tried to earn some money by distributing it as shareware but that was a REAL flop. Now it is free. It's not open source because I don't have the source anymore, so let's call it lost source.

In the same year I made my first contact with Linux while installing a computer system for a customer. I remember a phone call to the SuSE hotline: A guy told me to compile a thing called kernel and I was not able to understand why I have to do this... Another year later, the last year at school, I have learned the basics of C and Unix.

After school I began to work as a Delphi programmer, later I switched to Linux and programmed in various languages and also worked as a system administrator.

At home I am developing small open source programs, libraries and tools and playing with 3D and MUDs. Maybe I get my 3D-Library written in Delphi ported to C++ someday, but that's a lot of work...

E-Mail: k@ailis.de

From: Germany, Bonn

Languages: German, English

Projects

Lead Developer on bfa
Lead Developer on aidbf
Lead Developer on strutilsxx
Lead Developer on sqlxx
Helper on SWIG
Lead Developer on swigphp
Lead Developer on pyiptables
Lead Developer on svtools
Lead Developer on svssrtf
Developer on Debian
Developer on APL
Lead Developer on mynetlog
Lead Developer on reprox
Lead Developer on phable

Recent blog entries by Kay

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1 Jan 2003 »

FreeReport is the free version of a commercial reporting software for Delphi. It is very powerful but it has a problem: It needs the VCLDB-Package which is not included in the Personal Edition of Delphi (At least Delphi 6 Personal, maybe Delphi 7 Personal is also affected).

Because I want to use FreeReport with Delphi 6 Personal, I have written a VCLDB-Dummy-Package. It implements a Dummy-API with all stuff which is needed by FreeReport. So if you install this dummy package you are able to compile FreeReport and can use all of it's components except the DB-aware stuff.

25 Dec 2002 »

I'm currently not very active in software developing. Too much to do at work (Which is not worth mentioning here (Because it's Windows programming, yuck!)). But I found some time to do some geek stuff: I built a simple rubber band pistol as a replica of the IMI Desert Eagle with my old Lego bricks. Pictures and building instructions (Created with LeoCAD) can be found on my Loft.

3 Aug 2002 »

Finally the iPAQ's touchscreen problem is fixed in the current CVS version of XFree86. Thanks to Jim Gettys and Keith Packard.

I have extracted the fix and created a patch for the current stable version 4.2 which can be downloaded from my patch repository.

23 Jun 2002 »

Currently I'm learning how to use Allegro. It's a nice game programming library which also comes with some basic 3D functionality. Time to get back to work on my 3D engine.

Because of a question I got via email this morning I have created a small Open the Chassis of the Toshiba 3200 SXC howto.

6 Jun 2002 »

Generating good statistics on Windows is a real pain. Expensive software like Webtrends is hard to maintain, hard to use and the generated statistics are graphical bull shit which are only useful to managers and marketing guys ("Wow! Those graphics looking great!!")

Webalizer, which is my first choice in the unix world, is also available for Windows but it does not support the W3C extended log file format (which is used by Microsoft's IIS) natively and tools like rconvlog are not working correctly. I wonder what has happened to the W3C patch which is mentioned on the webalizer web site. Since 2000 this patch (which I can't find) is not included into webalizer.

Well, because I was in need of a solution I patched webalizer myself to introduce W3C extended logfile support. The patch can be downloaded here.

I already tested the patch on a windows server. Seems to work. I'll produce a win32 binary package of webalizer tomorrow and publish it on my website.

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