About me
My name is Roland Weigert, and I live in Germany. (Bavaria in special)
I am working as an equipment engineer for Texas Instruments in Freising.
I started programming (again) when I was learning about databases in technician-school.
Something made click in me and K-Yamo was born.I started just with a proof of concept, that I can manage C++, Qt and MySQL.
My former programming-tries where on other Computers than the Linux-System I use now.
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First steps in BASIC on my first computer.(Atari 800XL)
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Getting deeper into the materia with Amiag-BASIC and afterwards AMOS.(Amiga)
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First steps in Assembler, but soon decided, that this is not my cup of tea, for bigger things than just calculating some values.(Amiga)
Oh, I like Assembler, but it gets rather circumstancial on bigger projects.
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Tried learning C++ with the wrong book, and without any C-knowledge. (This caused my programming-break)
If you want to learn C++, don't learn with the book from Bjarne StrouStrup as beginners-book!
You can use it as reference-book, if you have some clues, but not earlier.
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Bought the right book this time, learned C and found out that C++ is really easy, if you have some clues.
I highly recommend computer-books from Galileo Computing. (I did not get payed for this sentence ;-))
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Programmed some smaller stuff for experience only, and made first steps with Qt this way.(Linux)
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Made first tests with MySQL-Interface of Qt. (Linux)
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Started the project Kmp3organizer, wich is now named K-Yamo.
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The Restart with QT4 brought a lot of fresh air into the code, since I read a lot of books.
People not liking my programmingstile before, will be really surprised about the changes.
I would say, my programming gets better. (But therefor I am slower than before)
Why I write K-Yamo
Since I really love music, and have therefore a lot of mp3-files, I came in need for a programm organizing all of my music for me. I have a lot of songs (so about 16000), and some of them are not propper tagged, because I was not organizing propper in the beginning. I was looking for a programm doing all the cleanup-process for me, but I could not find a programm matching my needs. Than my interrest in databases got woken up, and I had the right ideas, and started working on that ideas. K-Yamo is getting more and more the tool I always wanted to have for music-organizing. Be sure that I use my own programm since version 0.2b for all my cd-ripping and file-tagging.
Hobbies
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Listening to music. (What a surprise)
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Computers. (The next big surprise)
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A "Medium"-Tower with Intel Q6600/4Gb Ram/Asus P5E3 Deluxe (My new Maincomputer, Gentoo Amd64)
Well, Medium is kind a joke for the Coolermaster Cosmo 1000. ;-)
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An Asus G71GX Laptop with Intel Core2Duo 9600/6Gb Ram (Also Gentoo Amd64)
(I like Asus, as you can see)
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Sports. (Maybe someday i run the half-marathon, if I have enough time for training)
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Reading books. (I really love Dan Simmons and Clive Barker books)
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Pets. (We have two cats and 2 Chinchillas here)
Top ten music
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The great cold distance by Katatonia
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Final conversation of Kings by The Butterfly Effect (A really good album)
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Mabool by Orphaned Land
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Fiction by Dark Tranquility
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Red album by Baroness
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I by Xerath
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Lazarus Bird by Burst
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Zombieactionhaupquartier by Callejon
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Holographic Universe by Scar Simmetry
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No world for tomorrow by Coheed and Cambria
Newest Cds:
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From afar by Ensiferum
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Victory songs by Ensiferum
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Isolation Songs by Ghost Brigade
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Bringer of Plagues by Divine Heresy
Top five books
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Kinder der Nacht by Dan Simmons
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Die Hyperiongesänge by Dan Simmons
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Gyre by Clive Barker
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Imagica by Clive Barker
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Eine Tiefe am Himmel by Vernor Vinge
Reading at the moment:
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Abarat Tage der Wunder und Nächte des Zorns by Clive Barker
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JavaScript das umfassende Referenzwerk by David Flanagan