StephanAdig

Writing on a howto/walkthrough for beginners on how to package sourcepackages and playing aroung with buggy upstream software.
You can find this at HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch. (Status: Work in progress - Not finished/Not usable Version: 0.1)

Local Apt-Get Repositories for Developers

Wrote this little Howto (LocalAptGetRepositories) , just because I was fighting more than 18 hours with all this stuff.

Package Building

Something about me

Hello Friend,

my name is Stephan '\sh' Hermann and I'm working with Linux now for over 12 years. In my real life I was a system administrator working in a German Cable TV Company, playing around with some SUNs and some Alphas and finally X86 boxes with Linux on it

In my spare time, if you name it, I have a couple of other projects running, first of all my own company, called sourcecode.de. After all, I'm administrating a couple of Gentoo and RedHat Boxes for a small company called [http://www.wds-tech.de/ WDS Tech], they're selling gameservers, webspace and some hardware.

The rest of my daytime is occupied for my family.

Well, you know now, that the priorities are different, from what I'm writing here.

Nevertheless, Oliver Grawert(ogra), who was working with me in the same cable tv company, "forced" me to play with Ubuntu Linux. After installing my first Hoary RC1 distribution I was quite amazed. Now I'm running Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 on my beloved HP/Compaq laptop and trying to promote some new packages.

3 years ago I went on holiday with my family to South Africa. My Ex-Wife is a southafrican indian and we visited all nice (non-tourist) places. So, I was really surprised to see Mark Shuttleworth doing this project, even with a hint to Africa. Finally, I was working with Thawte in the past, when Thawte wasn't known by anybody else then to a couple of anti-verisign guys What I forgot to say about South Africa is: If you visit Durban the next time, please visit the indian takeaway "Coconut Grove", it's really a nice place to eat (directly in front of the Durban beach) and they are making nice chilli cheese lamb burgers, chilly french fries and bunny chows (sp?) (it's a loaf of bread, and inside you will find lamb meat). If you like good wine, make a trip to Stellenbosch, it's near Cape Town (western cape), and taste some of the good red wine of South Africa.

I have to stop now with writing about South Africa, but it's really a nice, friendly, fantastic country, and I'm quite sure, in a couple of years time, I want to settle there and setup a business.

Some stuff of my past:

1994-1999 NWU GmbH, Germany

Technical Director, 5 years most of the time working with X86 Linux and Cisco
trained on SecureComputing SecureZone Firewall (doesn't exit anymore, now it's called Sidewinder)

1999-2000 TroNet GmbH, Germany

Web Application Developer and Project Manager most of the time working with X86 Linux, PHP, Perl and Cisco, developing database web application for companies like Nestle and some other local companies.

2000-2001 RedHat Europe, Germany

EMEA Web Engineering Manager Well, nothing to say about it. I don't wanna talk about it.

2001-2003 Web4You GmbH, Germany

Technical Director Same as NWU GmbH

2003-2004 Lycos Europe GmbH, Germany

Internet System Specialist Many X86 Linux Boxes, mostly Debian Linux OS Many SUN Boxes, mostly Solaris OS Many Alpha Clusters, mostly running under Tru64 4.0f or 5.2

2004-12/2005 ISH GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

ISP/DTV Engineer Well, quite difficult to describe which hard/software we're using, it's a mixture of sun/hp alpha/x86 boxes and Solaris, Tru64, Linux and Windows as operating systems.

2006- Jobless

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