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<h3>* To whom it may concern * </h3>
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<h3>dHarry...</h3>
<p>I know what you're thinking, punk. You are thinking: "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement... but being this is a .44 Magnum the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky?... Well, do ya, punk?!
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry">Dirty Harry (1971)</a>
<p>Well actually, my nickname is Harry and I seem to get all the dirty jobs...</p>
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<h3>Stuff I worked with:</h3>
<b>Languages</b><br/>
Ada 95; Assembly; (Q)Basic; C; CL; C++; Clipper; COBOL; DCL; DIBOL; Fortran; Java (J2SE & JEE); JavaScript; LDAP; Pascal; Perl; PHP; Progress; RPG; Uniface; Visual Basic; XML (many vocabularies/technologies); SQL (and dialects, e.g. PLSQL).
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<b>OSes</b><br/>
Mac OS X; MS DOS; Linux (several); OS2; Unix (SUN Solaris, SCO, AIX, UX); Windows (all); Open VMS; OS400.
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<b>DBMSes</b><br/>
Access; DB2; Dbase; eXist; (Open)Ingress; iPlanet and IBM directory server; Oracle; Progress; MySQL; MS SQL-server; Sybase ASE & IQ.
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<h3>Books I have read and recommend (wild mix)</h3>
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<li>Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen) by Ludwig Wittgenstein.</li>
<li>Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) by Martin Heidegger.</li>
<li>Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku</li>
<li>The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell</li>
<li>Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Bertrand Russell</li>
<li>The Problem of Knowledge, Alfred Ayer</li>
<li>The Game is Up (Les Jeux sont faits), Jean-Paul Sartre</li>
<li>IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems, Chris Britton</li>
<li>Travels in four dimensions: The enigmas of Space and Time, Robin le Poidevin</li>
<li>A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow</li>
<li>Perl Best Practices, Damian Conway</li>
<li>Phantoms in the Brain, V. S. Ramachandran</li>
<li>XSLT Cookbook, Sal Mangano</li>
<li>A Critical History of Western Philosophy, D.J. O'Connor </li>
<li>Fundamentals of astrodynamics, Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White</li>
<li>La Buena Suerte, Alex Rovira Celma and Fernando Trias de Bes</li>
<li>Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Fortescue, Stark and Swinerd</li>
<li>Distributed Systems concepts and design, Coulouris, Dollimore & Kindberg</li>
<li>El vendedor de pasados, J. E. Agualusa</li>
<li>The King: Chess Pieces, J.H. Donner</li>
<li>Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb</li>
<li>Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, (lecture notes), Beck, J. Christopher; Smith, Barbara (Eds.)</li>
<li>The Art Of Software Testing, G. L. Myers (2nd updated version, 2004)</li>
<li>Open Source SOA, Jeff Davis</li>
<li>Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Mlodinow, L.</li>
<li>...</li>
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<h3>Quotes...</h3>
<p>Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.</p>
<p><i>H. H. Williams</i></p>
<p>Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.</p>
<p><i>Robert J. Hanlon</i></p>
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Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backward from which we may never recover.
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<p><i>C.A.R. Hoare</i></p>
<p>I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.</p>
<p><i>Hunter S. Thompson</i></p>
<p>A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.</p>
<p><i>Friedrich Nietzsche</i></p>
<p>If you don't like my answers, don't ask me questions!</p>
<p><i>dHarry</i></p>
<p>It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.</p>
<p><i>Edward de Bono</i></p>
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