About me
I am:
- A russian citizen, living in Saratov (MSK/MSD)
- A Mirantis employee (Cisco DCAS)
- A senior software engineer
- A lecturer in Java and C++ at Mirantis courses
- A maintainer of devel/boost port for FreeBSD
- A technical writer
- A geek customizing the window system, shells, Emacs and other UNIX stuff
- A technology evangelist, explaining people how they can benefit from innovations
I like:
- BSD license and operating systems family
- UNIX 08
- rc.conf
- FreeBSD ports
- BSDMake
- HTML5 and CSS3
- C++0X
- Boost
- Polymorphism and encapsulation
- Metaprogramming
- Test-driven development
- Software internationalization
- Agile and Lean software development
- Portable code
I hate:
- GPL license
- Differencies in Linux distributions
- Linus Torvalds
- Fedora/RHEL configuration
- RPMs
- CmakeLists.txt
- Flash and Silverlight
- Qt
- Inheritance and access modifiers
- Code duplication
- Defect-driven development
- Software localization
- Costly development tools and boring processes
- Non-portable code
If you want to contact me with a personal question, then write to ithinkiknowyou@alexanderchuranov.com.