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who is this simon anyway?

simon is a computer science student at the university of innsbruck. for kicks and giggles (and to finance his trombone habit) he also works as a sysadmin at the institute of computer science at the university of innsbruck.

simon has been working with computers since he was about 8 years old. about the same age he started playing trombone and he's still doing both, but that's irrelevant right now.

simon's programming experience ranges from bbc basic learnt as a kid (doesn't really count anymore), turbopascal at school, then as a more practical thing, ASP/VBScript for almost 3 years. since he started working at uni, that skill set was extended by C, bash, perl, php and of course java. simon has played around with some functional programming languages, but hasn't really wrapped his mind around any practical use for one yet (except for the fine program lilypond).

most of simon's projects have been in some way related to the web programming paradigm ranging from simple content management systems to complex financial apps for an insurance company. simon considers himself very proficient in mysql and fairly well versed in postgresql. brief contact with oracle and db2 have convinced him that mysql and postgresql are perfectly suited for small projects, but that big jobs require big weapons. :)

So, what's Symthy for?

aspsimon.org is simon's pet project hideaway. Symthy is the fun application simon has created to make managing and tracking his projects a doddle.

Colophon

symthy @ aspsimon is running on Symphony CMS.

The design was knocked together using blueprint, a very fine and simple css framework for creating grid-based layouts. The logo was hand made in Illustrator and the colours were selected by a friend, simon being colourblind.