User:SHRIKEE

Specs
My name is Arnan de Gans. On the internet i go by SHRIKEE. I am 21-ish. My gender is male and I'm Dutch. Currently i live in the Netherlands and plan on moving away to something tropic/warmer/sunnier when i get wealthy or rich or both. My website is to be found at meandmymac.net and my resumé is located here. I am working as software tech and support desk engineer for a Apple premium reseller and Apple service provider. Also i take donations...

me
I am not much of a public guy and totally geeky about computers. I have been toying/working with computers since 1992-ish. Started with a Atari (A diskless thing where everything was ran from a floppy) and am hooked ever since. What started as a weird hobby playing games and stuff turned into a real way of living with the more serious things about a computer like coding websites in PHP/MYSQL/xHTML and CSS, networking and the occasional game.

I dare to say I know a fair bit about computers on different aspects including professional networking, webscripting and various types of soft- and hardware. I have worked with almost all versions of windows working my way up the ladder of versions from Dos 3 to Windows 3.1 to Windows XP. In 2002-2003 I became interested in Linux/Unix aswell and have ever tried to adapt to it. A major drawback was, and still is, that it does not work well with games. So far I've experimented with various distributions including early Redhat, Suse versions and more recently; Kubuntu, Fedora Core and openSUSE. Currently i own a MacBook Pro running OSX tiger.

Currently I am in college to become some kind of computer whiz and learn all about computers and hope to continue to Software Engineering somewhere in the next 2-3 years.

In 2003 I started my own company with the idea to sell websites to small, mid-sized businesses and home users. This never really got of the ground and i sold a few websites so far. I am not really busy with it at all and do not give it much thought. ZeroCom computers has been shut down since late 2007.

I'm an Wordpress user and have created some plugins aswell as private and public contributions and patches to Wordpress, a bunch of plugins and themes. Randomly i write code or help others out with stuff related to computers/internet. I created several scripts and am working on several. Visit my project page for more details about the larger things. Currently I'm on and off working on a PHP IRC bot. Since i first published my Events plugin on the codex of Wordpress there was 1 other plugin namely "dates to remember". I was looking for such a plugin but that particular one wasn't very user friendly. This made me decide to make my own. At the time a category for such plugins did not exist and they were listed in "Miscellaneous". Now a category "Calendar - Events" is created and over a dozen plugins which are events/calendar related are listed there.

Trivia
I ...

... toy with computers, code and hardware to learn more than just the basics but get easily frustrated when things won't work.

... am an easy going guy on the internet but very shy in real life.

... think English should be made the default language of the world to enhance global communication and quality of the web.

... am considered to come from America because of my good English and accent when i speak English (personally i think my pronunciation isn't that good).

... have 2 desktop computers, 1 servers a NAS and a laptop.

... hang out on Yahoo, Google Talk and IRC everyday.

... am afraid in the dark (i even bought a flashlight).

... maintain a rather complex home network which you would sooner expect in a small business than a home.

... built my own desk since a pre-build one never fits in the room how i like it.

... want to buy a 24" iMac. (did buy a 20" iMac on may 5th 2008.)

... prefer juice over soda.

... somehow always end up liking foreign girls.