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I am an engineer with a background in electronics, software and mathematics.

I develop technical software, both for embedded systems and for desktop equipment. This includes operating systems, communication software, local networks, image processing, machine control, automation, etc.

I have been using all kinds of microcontrollers and microprocessors (Intel 4004/8080/8051/80386/Pentium, Motorola 680x/680x0/ColdFire/PowerPC, Microchip PIC, Altera NIOS, and many more), lots of programming languages (all relevant assemblers, Fortran, Basic, C, Java, C#, and many more), and different operating systems (both proprietary and commercial).

For desktop applications and general development tools I have been using both UNIX systems and Mac/MacOS for many years, but I have switched to x86-based PCs with Windows, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework several years ago.

I specialize in:
- cross-platform development (making software that runs on diverse hardware/OS combinations)
- instruction set simulation
- improving software performance, i.e. making sure the software runs the job at hand in as short a time as possible on the given hardware. This entails algorithm selection, implementation design, accurate measurements, code optimisation, and sometimes implementing virtual machines, applying SIMD technology (such as MMX/SSE), and more.

   

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GeneralRe: CP Web Service Proposal Pin
#realJSOP4-Oct-10 13:26
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Luc Pattyn4-Oct-10 13:31
sitebuilderLuc Pattyn4-Oct-10 13:31 
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#realJSOP4-Oct-10 13:44
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Nicholas Butler5-Oct-10 22:48
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Luc Pattyn6-Oct-10 2:57
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Nicholas Butler6-Oct-10 7:30
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Nish Nishant10-Oct-10 12:27
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Luc Pattyn10-Oct-10 13:44
sitebuilderLuc Pattyn10-Oct-10 13:44 
Hmm. Do we need all this?
So far I tried to formalize what had been used (by scraping) in the existing apps, while keeping things pretty general, not excluding future extensions, not tailoring to exactly what would be used today.

We can ask for message information, OK, no problem. Not sure what use it would have. Do you want to create your own forum viewer?

We can ask for extensive voting information, I did not even consider that, as it is not available on the web site as is, and I do not really want to ask for information the web pages themselves aren't offering. The voting system is a delicate system, it is partially anonymous, etc. I don't feel like offering a second view on it, deviating from the first view, which is the web pages themselves. It would open a truckload of cans of worms IMO.

I could come up with a lot more ideas, but do we want them? do we need them?
My wants (not the needs from existing apps) would include:
- give me all threads where members M1 and M2 participate.
- give me all threads where "xyz" is in the subject line.
- give me arbitrary search facilities.
That is because I'm convinced the CP database is a gold mine, and we can barely scratch the surface with the current search facilities. However, here too, I would prefer the web site itself to offer better functionality (just like you would prefer MSDN help to work extremely well inside Visual Studio).

In summary: convince me I want your app, the one that needs these extra functions, right now. Do you have the concept for such a killer app? and will you offer it provided the info is available?
I'm a bit pragmatic here. I don't mind adding functionality if it increases the attractiveness of the proposal, and not just makes it bigger and less likely to get realized any time soon...

How about this: lets agree on some functionality with limited scope (e.g. similar to V1.0, with minor adjustments, based on existing feedback), get that approved, implemented, adopted by some apps, and enjoyed. Then perhaps consider a V2.0 with new features added. Rationale: we can dream up all kinds of things, is it worth delaying everything? Initially we had no scraping apps; then there was one, not enough to warrant a web service. Now there are four. I studied them all, saw similarities and possible synergy. I would like to grab the opportunity, right now.

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Nish Nishant11-Oct-10 2:30
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