The kid (before 1999)
BASIC -> Turbo Pascal -> C -> C++- 5 years old - 1st "program", BASIC - colorful drawing of a house
- 14 years old - 1st sold program, Turbo Pascal, DOS, driver for a printer, interrupt based conversion of encodings (e.g. Mazovia to Latin-2)
- 17 years old (1998) - Borland C++ Builder, database GUI-s sold (e.g. package tracking, noise analysis)
University time (2000-2005, 19-24 y/o)
Job
During University, I was for 5 years working for a Technical School in Poland as IT Admin (Zespol Szkol Technicznych in Zielona Gora).- I made a PHP website for them:
Bussiness
My small bussiness (as 3 Red Ants Studio):- C++ stream:
- Clipboard Studio - Borland C++ Builder
- iDownload.com downloader
Visual Studio C++
The executable for downloading over HTTP was just 14KB with full GUI (40KB with PNG logo).
- Direct-X 7 2D (C/C++) visuals
The Twirl:
Digital LSD (aka LSD Studio):
- Direct-X 8 3D (C++) visuals
Fuzzy Logic Estimation with Genetic Global Minimum Search:
The Dummies Disc:
- Clipboard Studio - Borland C++ Builder
- Web:
- Flash games - Tetris, Ganja Sweeper, Kikugi:
You can actually still play them if you have Flash: Kongregate: Tetris one more, Kongregate: Kikugi
- PHP, HTML (some JavaScript), Flash (ActionScript)
I started web development as a 2nd stream of work (1st was C/C++/desktop)
- Our own websites: humorek.net, smiech.net
- Commercial work for agencies/customers (few examples):
- Websites: Photo lab, Suntravel, Pizza Sycylia:
- SMS module on Gilotyna.pl, one of the 1st SMS-to-web-API gateways used:
- Websites: Photo lab, Suntravel, Pizza Sycylia:
- Our own websites: humorek.net, smiech.net
- Flash games - Tetris, Ganja Sweeper, Kikugi:
ADB Time (2005 - 2011)
I was employed by Advanced Digital Broadcast
to work on Set Top Box (STB) projects.
- Wrote a lot of code in C, C++, Java (MHP), SH4 (RISC), Broadcom (MIPS) assembler
- I coded on all layers, from kernel drivers to embedded applications
- I introduced a lot graphics/OSD innovations:
- HighDefinition TV: HDTV full resolution support (1920 x 1080 pixels), HDMI/HDCP support,
- 32-bit ARGB rendering
- designed and implemented fonts system (based on freetype2 rendering), image decoding (png/jpg/svg) and propertiary widget rendering subsystems (which was inspired by mix of OpenTV + Qt)
- Coded a lot of DVB (satellite, terrestrial, cable) and ATSC solutions:
- DVB SI (Service Information) scans and monitoring for terrestial (DVB-T), satellite (DVB-S) and cable (DVB-C) environments, with country-specifics for Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and UK,
- electronic program guide (epg/event information), parental control, languages selection for audio and teletext, hard-of-hearing, power saving modes
- web-services integration (VOD, remote recording, browser integration etc.)
Continuing my small bussiness
- Websites with PHP, Flash and some JavaScript (JavaScript was still poor at that time):
Examples: Ortoline, Solidarnosc, 3 Red Ants
- Web components in Flash
- Baby name stats GUI for some marketing website:
- Speed test for Exigo:
- Web questionnaire for some PR agency:
- Baby name stats GUI for some marketing website:
- Analysis tools:
- Black Analyzer (aka Blackalyzer) - Borland C++ Builder - a tool for printing company
- Temperature Map Interpolation - PHP - a web-based tool for manufacturing industry
- Black Analyzer (aka Blackalyzer) - Borland C++ Builder - a tool for printing company
- Started calculla.com and calculla.pl
Go to full chapter dedicated to "Calculla" to know more...
Tieto, Nokia, DigitalRoute (2011-2012)
CodeProject.com (2012)
Mobica, Pace (2013)
Sky (2013-2014)
Take a look on youtube: Sky Q tour
I was implenting all that animations of GUI, font rendering, left-right navigation (layers), EPG guide scrolling.
Of course, what you can see on a movie, it's only "front" of it. Behind the scene there is whole bunch of C/C++, Qt, GL code, memory/resources management etc.