User:Deiussum
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About Me
My name is Daniel Jenkins. I am a software engineer currently with Nexus Innovations in Fargo, ND. I have many hobbies and activities that keep me busy in my spare time.
- Programming (games, small applications)
- Photography (landscape, wildlife, architecture, etc.)
- Valve Source engine modding (maps, modeling, mods)
- Graphics design (3d modeling, Photo editing, web/label graphics, and some video editing and DVD authoring)
- Outdoor activities (Camping, hiking, fishing)
- Working on lycanth.com.
- Games (Orange Box, EQ2, Wii)
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Software Use
There are many software packages that I find myself using a lot. Many of these are free, and highly recommended.
- The Gimp - Very good graphics program. I can't understand spending several hundreds of dollars on Photoshop when the Gimp does everything that most people will ever need.
- Blender - A free 3d modelling program. Has many great features, but sadly takes a bit of learning to be come proficient in.
- Cygwin - Gives you a bash shell in Windows. What more could you want?
- Visual Studio 2005/2008 - I use these for work and home programming projects. Microsoft now has standalone free versions of each individual compiler available. (C#, C++, etc.) They may not be as feature rich as the full thing, but have enough that most people would use.
- Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 - This can be frustrating to use at times, but I often use it for editing videos and burning them onto DVDs. It's got lots of features, but sometimes feels a bit slow and buggy under Vista.
- Valve Source SDK - I've been using this a lot lately for creating maps for Portal, TF2, and M-198: Source.
- vim - Text editor for the command prompt. I spend much time editing pages under Linux and have gotten very comfortable in vim. Like Blender, it's got a steep learning curve, though. It's nearly useless until you learn all the shortcuts.
- Textpad - Goes on all of my Windows PCs. Great text editor substitute to Notepad.
- OpenOffice - As long as I'm mentioning text editors, I should include OpenOffice. I use that on my home computers in place of Microsoft Office. I don't use it a lot, but the database and spreadsheet apps definitely come in handy at times.
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Programming Languages
While I can say I have worked with many different languages in the past, there are only a few that I currently use with any frequency.
- C++ - Work, Source SDK, most of my side projects
- C# - Work, and a couple of side projects like Sudoku and Minnesota Whist
- DOS batch sripting - Been doing a lot with this for build scripts at work
- bash scripting - Much nicer than DOS. I use this in Linux and cygwin scripts.
- Perl - This is used in a lot of our build scripts
- Python - Blender scripts. I've also been trying to use Python more for automating scripts that I may have used Perl for in the past
- PHP - All my web sites are developed with PHP. Although the bulk of them are third-party packages, in the past I have done sites completely from scratch. I have also customized and created PHP plug-ins.
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Current Projects
- Updating Minnesota Whist
- Creating a TF2 map
- Creating a Source engine mod called M-198: Source
- Working on this site
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My other sites
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TODO
- Tweak and add various Category:Templates
- Add something more to the Main Page. But what?
- Other pages?
- Update projects to use free edition of VC++ 2008 and VC# 2008?
- Examine web logs to see if I lost anything else that is commonly used. (Like scrnapp.zip, but is it worth the effort to update that?)
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