Welcome!

This website serves a double purpose. To assist me in presenting some of my portfolio and to introduce a few discoveries and theories which might help my readers, whoever they are (software developers, writers, gamers, etc.).

It’s not a Blog, even if it has WordPress behind it. I don’t like the idea of a Blog. It’s probably because (during the Web 2.0 “revolution”) a lot of people started Blogging about tons of personal (and usually useless) crap. I prefer to keep personal stuff on my own storage devices. That’s why it’s called “personal”. So you don’t smudge it all over the ‘net.

On the other hand, there are A LOT of wonderful Blogs out there. People who really have something valuable to say, who provide solutions, ideas, valuable insight and so on. I can’t forget Product and Company Blogs either. So I’m not saying “blogging is evil”. It’s just that I prefer to avoid the association. And this is the last time I’ll mention the word Blog around here.

I created this website in December, 2011. It is my first hands-on experience with WordPress and, I must say, I am positively impressed by it.  My friend DiAngelo planned to use it for our Gamaddiction website^, and, since I needed a “portfolio website” anyway and my echysttas.org domain was rotting unused since 2008, I said, what the hell, let’s see what this baby can do.

So, while DiAngelo was resting in the weekend, I used the two days to whip this site up into existence. I used a non-standard Theme, so I had quite a bit of tweaking, debugging and swearing to do ::- ).

All things considered (namely that I am not a PHP developer), I managed to emerge victorious on Tuesday, the 13th of December, in the evening, after two more days of struggle. Luckily for me, I got a lot of coding experience in other languages, and I had quite a few encounters with PHP in the past. For example, back in 2008 I had a few run-ins with SilverStripe, which I used for my AxonnSD website^. Even earlier, I used PHP for my ASD Clock project^, where it powered the program’s alarm synchronization featured (a sort of primitive “Cloud” storage which I created back in 2007 – although I first thought about it in 2004).

So, welcome to my website. I’ll try to keep it helpful and concise. Hopefully I won’t pollute the ‘net with any useless horseshit ::- D. And if I do, please, feel free to flame me :;- ).