Hi, I know the modperl mailing list has been used time and again for job offers or applications. I am here to do the latter.
People on this list tend to know me as committer and as a helping hand if they encounter problems with modperl or httpd. Currently, I am looking for a project preferably in Germany or the EU. Best if a considerable part of remote work is possible. But I am also willing to do my share of traveling. About me: I am a freelance programmer based in Germany. My strong points are not only perl, modperl, apache httpd and C but also postgres, javascript, html(5), css. I have worked with XML and XPATH. A few months ago I wrote for example a small program that converts openoffice documents into epub. Both are XML based formats. I know SVG quite a bit. Also XML based, I have written feeders to keep a Google search appliance up to date. But I also have implemented search engines based on xapian and the full text search facility of postgres. I know what a stemmer is and what snowball means in this context. I have worked with small, low-traffic web servers and with large, high-traffic, multi-server installations, with web servers on the Internet and in intranets. All of them have their specific problems and constraints. On the security side, I know quite a bit about SSL, establishment of trust, a bit of cryptography. For a client I run a small trust center issuing SSL certificates for web servers and browsers. I am also able to set up a firewall based on linux/iptables. As a programmer I am quite meticulous. I try to handle errors in the best possible way. I hate it when a program silently ignores errors and proceeds doing the wrong thing. Better to abort it early. I pay attention to writing secure code. Also, I am good at delving into other peoples code and finding and fixing bugs. Although I work almost exclusively on Linux other UNIX-like systems are also welcome. I simply know Linux best. More specifically, I work mostly with opensuse and sles. I know how to build RPM packets and how to write SPEC files. Here are 2 examples of stuff I like to do and am confident with: http://foertsch.name/ModPerl-Tricks/asynchronous-postgres/index.shtml http://foertsch.name/ModPerl-Tricks/postgres-notifications/index.shtml Torsten
