===== Alejandro Pulver =====
This page contains some information about myself.
==== Information ====
* Age: 19
* Studies: coursing second year of Computer Science at local university
* Birthday: December 23rd, 1989 (see [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.freebsd|committers calendar]])
* Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (see [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/astro/xearth/files/freebsd.committers.markers|xearth committers markers]])
==== Contact ====
* Email: or (checked almost every day)
* PGP key
* ID: ''%%945C3F61%%''
* Server: ''%%hkp://pgp.mit.edu%%''
* Fingerprint: ''%%085F E8A2 4896 4B19 42A4 4179 895D 3912 945C 3F61%%''
* [[http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pgpkeys-developers.html#PGPKEY-ALEPULVER|At FreeBSD Handbook]]
* MSN: (currently not in use)
* ICQ: 499432891 (currently not in use)
* XMPP: (currently not in use)
==== Computers ====
=== Activities ===
* %%FreeBSD%% user since beginning of 2005 (almost no previous UNIX experience)
* Porting/using enhanced versions of %%IdSoftware%%'s classics (Doom, Quake, etc) and games based on them
* %%FreeBSD%% [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=alepulver%40FreeBSD.org&stype=maintainer|ports maintainer]], and committer since April 2006
* In 2006 I wrote (and maintain since then) [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.wx.mk|bsd.wx.mk]] and [[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.lua.mk|bsd.lua.mk]] (with Porters Handbook documentation)
* [[http://cor.planetquake.gamespy.com/arena/|Alien Arena]] maintainer of %%FreeBSD%% support from March 2007 to late 2008
* Integrated block aligning code with ublio layer for [[http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs|sysutils/fusefs-ntfs]], which increased read/write speed from 2-5MB/s to 20MB/s, and maintain it since then (May 2007)
* Participated in Google Summer of Code 2008, with a project for adding a ports licensing framework. See [[http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/index.html#p-ports-license-audit|Ideas entry]], and [[Ports/LicenseInfrastructure]]. At the end of the summer, the framework was in a working state but FOSSology integration wasn't completed because of incompatibilities with %%FreeBSD%%, which are being corrected together with the developers.
=== Interests ===
* UNIX fan (command line, automating repetitive tasks with scripts, programming, etc)
* Playing some computer games (FPS, racing and action)
* Programming, algorithms, data structures, etc (in C, with pointers and dynamic memory)
* Computer low-level details
* Compression software (not developing, but understanding how to get best results)
=== How did I start ===
I started with computers when I was about 5, playing Wolfenstein 3D (I even remember the MS-DOS commands I used to start it: ''%%cd wolf3d; carga.bat%%''). Then I continued with Doom, and that's how I started learning english (and with technical manuals, movies and music I learnt more english than at school).
About 2003 my father recommended me to start programming with Pascal (however he is not a programmer), I was using Windows 2000 with the Dev-Pascal IDE (uses %%FreePascal%% compiler). I learned the basic concepts from various tutorials in the internet (mainly Roby's Pascal Tutorial), but didn't reach pointers until starting with C, using the Dev-Cpp IDE (uses %%MinGW%% GCC). Then I learned basic data structures (lists, queues, stacks, binary trees, etc).
The next year I heard UNIX like systems were an excellent platform for development, and started with some Linux distributions. (Un)fortunately I had bad luck with them (was disappointed by the lack of central documentation, and didn't find a distribution of my liking). So my father recommended me %%FreeBSD%% as it was used in %%PairNetworks%%, where he hosts his website, and had a reputation of being serious and well documented.
So I installed %%FreeBSD%% 4.9 (at the end of 2004), and printed the Handbook. Then I updated it (by complete reinstall) when 5.3 came out, and started with ports, mainly games. In April 2006 I became a committer mentored by garga@, and continued working on other ports related areas.
=== Some past works ===
* In October 2005 participated on a beginnier programming contest organized by the ITBA (Buenos Aires Technological Institute), which didn't publish the 3 winner programs (either in source or binary forms), breaking their own contest rules and ignoring most of my e-mails (they removed that item from the rules the next following year). But it was useful since I researched and learned redblack trees and hash tables (the final version used the latter, and placed 10th).
* From December 2005 to August 2006 made some coding for %%QuDos%% (a Quake II engine modification with enhancenments): virtual filesystem functions, clean up, and a mini Ogg Vorbis player inside with playlists, commands, looping and shuffling. See the ''%%ogg_readme.txt%%'' in [[http://www.freshports.org/games/qudos|games/qudos]].
* In October 2006 participated in a Microsoft Gaming.NET contest about artificial intelligence (didn't win, but placed about 14th and learnt C# and some about .NET).
==== Other subjects ====
=== Activities ===
* Swimming (since 1999)
* Box training (from fall of 2006 to start of 2008)
* Used to play the piano (from 2000 to end of 2005)
=== Interests ===
* Music
* Movies
* Cars
* Photography
* Psychology
* Dogs
* Books (novels, story recopilations, etc)
==== Projects ====
=== Ports ===
* [[Ports/ToDo]] (recopilation of all ports system enhancenments)
* [[Ports/Tasks]] (recopilation of all ports related tasks around, except previous)
=== Docs ===
:!: Not started yet.
* Building a custom desktop (about exchanging different desktop components, tiling WM, random backgrounds, display managers, desktop icons, etc). As an article or part of Handbook.
* Add section about %%DocBook%% WYSIWYG editors to the Documentation Project Primer guide.
* Maybe migrating to %%DocBook%% XML 4.5/5.x and XSL stylesheets?
-- AlejandroPulver 2008-03-08 03:49:30 UTC
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