if there is one thing i enjoy, then it is hunting down a problem and finding the root cause of it. to a fault even, as i'll not give up until the problem is solved no matter how much effort it takes.

everything i do happens on a linux server. even my own laptops always as servers. i have been working with servers and developing them since 1995.

i am developing a REST api for my development -platform and i am using it in most of my customer applications.

i have been working with networking applications since 20 years. mostly http of course, but i also maintained a custom SMTP stack, and i am currently working with a platform that supports several protocols.

Free Software licensing is a complex field, and the consequences of some licenses are not always easy to understand. as a Free Software Advocate i love unravelling the consequences of the licenses that we work with.

the GPL is my preferred license. wherever possible i will publish my work under this license, and i will prefer projects with this or a compatible license.

Pike is a relatively unknown language whose development history goes back to its ancestor LPC in 1989. it is probably most similar to python, but is typed, and partially compiles to machine-code.

Pike is the bread and butter of my work and my business.

i use git every day for any project that we work on. i am working mostly with the linux commandline and gitk and tig. "git add -p" and "git rebase -i" are my most used tools, but also "git filter-branch" to clean up histories.

since discovering the aurelia framework i use it almost exclusively for my projects. i have since built several sites with it and continue to gain experience and expertise.

i discovered angular.js in 2012, when i carefully compared the then available web-frameworks, such as ember and knockout. i concluded that angular served my development style the most.

i am exploring smalltalk development with pharo, and i am mentoring students as they learn the smalltalk environment.

a few years ago i started developing a commandline application to learn common lisp. this application has then branched off in two different ones that i am still using and maintaining.

i have worked as a fulltime python developer for a time and i am still using the language occasionally.

i enjoy hacking on ruby applications, but don't get as much time to do it as i would like to

I am building all my websites with a BAAS platform that i am using for more than 10 years

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Martin B.

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Technical skills