Menno H. Mekern, Scientific Software Developer

Profile

• Studied Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.) at the Technische Hogeschool Rijswijk, graduated in January 1997.
• Joined FBK in May 1997.

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Interests

• Thin client/fat server applications
• Improving connectivity between information systems
• Multi-user simulations and interactive environments

Projects

• Research Group 6 Logistica warehouse simulation
• MAC address registration
• sendpage (SMS messager) AIX port
• Research Group 1 MoCoBi cost calculator
• Oracle SQL/Netscape LDAP database synchronization
• Ewald database web interface
• Research Group 1 TaCoTrans
• toos Blackboard CourseInfo server
• sasha web server (modified ftp and http daemon to authenticate users on a pop3 daemon)

Skills

• Programming Languages
  C, Java (applets, servlets, JavaMail, JSDT, RMI) JavaScript, Delphi, Rexx, socket programming, SQL, Perl, awk, TCL, X11, 6809/68HC11/680x0 assembly
• Operating Systems
  Windows 9?/NT, AIX, Linux, AmigaOS
• Database Systems
  Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server
• Computer Graphics
  Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paint Shop Pro
• Multimedia
  Macromedia Authorware
• Internet Systems
  Apache, cgi bin, Apache JServ, Allaire JRun, Mort Bay Jetty, qmail, sendmail, proftpd, IRC clients, daemons and bots, ICQ bots, firewalls, TCP/UDP tunneling/redirecting, MAC address fetching
• Languages
  Dutch, English, German

Recommended reading

• Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988.
  The de facto standard for C programming.
• W. Richard Stevens. UNIX Network Programming Volume 1: Networking APIs - Sockets and XTI, 2/e. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1997.
  How to use sockets and how not to use them.
• W. Richard Stevens. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1993.
  The missing link between "The C Programming Language" and "UNIX Network Programming".
• Ken Arnold, James Gosling. The Java Programming Language Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997.
  A very good book to learn Java.
• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides. Design Patterns. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994.
  Everything you already knew about OO programming techniques, but didn't have a name for.

Official announcements

Miscellaneous

• music gear
• preamp tubes review
• Daily Comic

Genetically modified foods - We're messing with God's binaries, but He didn't give us the source code.

I've always permitted my hair the same freedom as my spirit - Albert Einstein.

Reporter to Frank Zappa: So, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?
Frank Zappa to Reporter: So, you have a wood leg, does that make you a table?

That smoking is a form of oral pleasure, let there be no doubt. - Sigmund Freud.

Oefenruimte - Ik ben TEGEN zinloos gepiel.

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