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About me
What is this? Well, it's just a presentation page about me. It's in english, while my native language is italian. I think it could be useful to have something like this page, to allow people from all over the world to know a bit about myself. If you understand Italian, you can find more info on my blog.
Why Garakkio
?
Garakkio is after Garak. Garak is a character in TV series Star Trek Deep Space 9. It was around 1995, when I started to surf the Internet: in those days, the first episodes of DS9 were airing on italian TV, and I liked so much Garak that I chosen his name as my nick. Since then, I always used Garak and often Garakkio as nick (since it happens that Garak is already taken: Star Trek is a very popular series in the world!)
Quotes
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I'm a Geek!
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Mini-bio (of life and geekness)
1974
born1975
first brother born1986
(about) first personal computer (Commodore 64)1990
(about) switched to Amiga1991
second brother born1993
(about) switched to PC (486 DX2 50MHz with 4Mb RAM, DOS)1996
first time on Internet (with 14.4bps modem)1998
first job (as SAS programmer)2000
university degree (in Statistics)2001
switched to GNU/Linux2002
marriage2005
first son born2008
second son born
Open Source contributions
- Italian geo data for symfony
- An unobtrusive datepicker for symfony, written in jQuery
- Another unobtrusive datepicker for symfony, written in jQueryUI
- An integration of symfony with Google maps API
- sfSphinxPlugin: a symfony plugin to integrate Sphinx search
- sfSocialPlugin: a symfony plugin to build a community
- a MOD to integrate tinyMCE into phpBB
- all my symfony noise on trac
- more recent stuff is on GitHub
Contact
You can contact me as garak at following domains: libero.it, garak.it, despammed.com;
and as garakkio at following domains: gmail.com
Donations
Please support me by donating me one dollar or one euro.
How to build a good site
Just get these:
- Linux
- Apache
- mySQL
- PHP
- Symfony (was PEAR)
- PHPStorm (was Komodo, previously ViM)