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.

• First steps in BASIC on my first computer.(Atari 800XL)
• Getting deeper into the materia with Amiag-BASIC and afterwards AMOS.(Amiga)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 ;-))
• Programmed some smaller stuff for experience only, and made first steps with Qt this way.(Linux)
• Made first tests with MySQL-Interface of Qt. (Linux)
• Started the project Kmp3organizer, wich is now named K-Yamo.
• 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

• Listening to music. (What a surprise)
• Computers. (The next big surprise)
  • 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. ;-)
  • An Asus G71GX Laptop with Intel Core2Duo 9600/6Gb Ram (Also Gentoo Amd64)
  (I like Asus, as you can see)
• Sports. (Maybe someday i run the half-marathon, if I have enough time for training)
• Reading books. (I really love Dan Simmons and Clive Barker books)
• Pets. (We have two cats and 2 Chinchillas here)

Top ten music

1. The great cold distance by Katatonia
2. Final conversation of Kings by The Butterfly Effect (A really good album)
3. Mabool by Orphaned Land
4. Fiction by Dark Tranquility
5. Red album by Baroness
6. I by Xerath
7. Lazarus Bird by Burst
8. Zombieactionhaupquartier by Callejon
9. Holographic Universe by Scar Simmetry
10. No world for tomorrow by Coheed and Cambria

Newest Cds:

• From afar by Ensiferum
• Victory songs by Ensiferum
• Isolation Songs by Ghost Brigade
• Bringer of Plagues by Divine Heresy

Top five books

1. Kinder der Nacht by Dan Simmons
2. Die Hyperiongesänge by Dan Simmons
3. Gyre by Clive Barker
4. Imagica by Clive Barker
5. Eine Tiefe am Himmel by Vernor Vinge

Reading at the moment:

• Abarat Tage der Wunder und Nächte des Zorns by Clive Barker
• JavaScript das umfassende Referenzwerk by David Flanagan