About KaRt0nEs Blog
This is my personal blog about development, mainly focused on C# .NET development but sometimes I write about other languages or more general topics, and game programming, one hobby I have a little on hold since things go very fast and available time is very limited.
Why this blog having another one about general development and computers? I wanted to use one for general knowledge, and this one for more specific topics, or for uploading a joke for computer geeks, for example. Also, many times I wish to put some source-code, and this is the correct place.
What about you? Ok... I'm a .NET software developer. I've been working since 2001, but I learned C and Assembler long time ago. I'm a computers & technology passionate (some would define me as a "geek" ;) and it is my sin to work on non-common development projects, so I've touched a lot of technologies. I knew Assembler, C, C++, Pascal, Visual Basic 3.0 to 6.0, ASP 3.0, and since 2004 I develop with C# and ASP.NET, looking some times to C++ code, but not writing it. I've also touched OpenGL and DirectX, and actually I'm learning XNA.
I started with computers when I was 7 and my father bought an AMSTRAD PC/W with space invaders, pong... From that moment I knew I wanted to create things with computers. I've had an Amiga 500 (too that was the moment I saw the first "demos" that came with the game trainers, and I got interested in the demoscene) before switching to PCs. With the PC, I wanted to modify games so I bought an Assembler book and learned some basics, until I learned C and later C++. Since then I've been learning non-stop new technologies and languages.
I like to help other people so I maintain another blog about development, I've written few articles for online and paper magazines, and I give speeches (usually related to game development) from time to time to my local dotNETClub, or in Microsoft events like the Madrid CodeCamp. I own a spanish website since 2001 that has lots of freely available manuals and tutorials, created to help people find as much information as possible.
I'm a "security-aware" person, so I like to follow secure coding guidelines and read a lot of security-related stuff. I hope to become some day a security consultant, but without leaving entirely development. Nothing compares to creating something useful just from lines of code, and having to solve problems, to find solutions makes me now enjoy my work a lot.
Apart from computers, I love music (curiously I love both electronic music and ethnic and celtic music), movies, making scale model dioramas and buildings, reading (from terror novels to medieval age history), going to parties, and talking (I talk a lot ;)
Why that ugly, cigar-smoking dog as the community logo? Well, after watching MiB (and later MiB II) I realized that Frank was the best character of both films, so I took a photo of him and he became my first avatar for almost every web forum in which I participated. He is a Pug dog, and likes women, smoking and talking a bit too much :)
Why that strange favicon? It is the identicon of this website IP address (shared) plus "kartones".
What is this image on the contact page? It is a QRCode. Contains the URL of Kartones.net encoded in it.
