{"id":6,"date":"2010-08-25T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spatially-oriented.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-07-10T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:59:39","slug":"this-bit-is-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spatially-oriented.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/this-bit-is-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This bit is about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah well&#8230; this is about me. Since you are reading this, I&#8217;m asuming you care at least a bit. \ud83d\ude42 So, a short introduction might be in order for some readers&#8230; here goes: my name is Casper, I&#8217;m (at this moment) a 27 year old guy living in Voorburg, the Netherlands. I&#8217;ve been around the internet for quite some time now, and this is just another of my web domains. This site is mainly a braindump on all sort of things that go around in my head. I&#8217;ve become a big fan of Android. I&#8217;m currently owner of a Samsung Galaxy I7500. Yes, that&#8217;s the first Android phone by Samsung and I&#8217;ve certainly paid the price for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I bought it just after the Dutch release, and unfortunately, Samsung dropped support on it after a mere 5 months. Fortunately, Android has a very lively open source community. Because of that, I now still have a working and updatable phone. I really want to emphisize on three projects that I&#8217;m follow closely. First, there is my current day-to-day ROM: Galaxo. It&#8217;s a ROM maintained by <a title=\"Drakaz Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drakaz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Drakaz<\/a>. If you have a Galaxy i7500, take a look at it. Secondly, there is a sweet ADW based theme called <a title=\"Darksense download\" href=\"http:\/\/infect.c64.org\/blog\/archives\/98-DarkSense-Theme-for-Android-Galaxo-1.6.3.x.html\" target=\"_blank\">Darksense<\/a>. I really love the looks of it and combined with Galaxo it feels fast and stable. Thirdly, there is the kickass project <a title=\"Galaxy Android Open Source Project\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/gaosp\/\" target=\"_blank\">GAOSP<\/a>. This is basically to push the Android Open Source Project to the Galaxy hardware and for the better part maintained by Drakaz. They are currently working on a Froyo port, which is maturing very rapidly. <span class=\"pullquote\">Please, take a look at it, marvel at it and buy those guys a beer.<\/span><br \/>\nBut these three projects are what triggered me to start focussing on Android development myself. I&#8217;m currently working on getting to know the application development first. But after that, I want to see if I can get the AOSP working as well.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Android, I&#8217;ve become a fan of GIS applications. I&#8217;m a big fan of the <a title=\"Openlayers Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openlayers.org\" target=\"_blank\">OpenLayers<\/a> project, <a title=\"Mapserver Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/mapserver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mapserver<\/a>, <a title=\"Geoserver Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/geoserver.org\" target=\"_blank\">GeoServer<\/a>, and more stuff like that. My ultimate goal is to create awesome GIS applications for Android. I&#8217;m also a fan of <a title=\"Joomla Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joomla.org\" target=\"_blank\">Joomla!<\/a> which I used to create this site. I&#8217;ve been working on an OpenLayers component for Joomla! as well. When that finally finishes (I&#8217;ve been on and off on it since 2008) I&#8217;m planning to release it on either an GPL or an LGPL license. Don&#8217;t expect that to be soon, if ever, though. If you are really interested, I might give you a peek. Just contact me though twitter or mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah well&#8230; this is about me. Since you are reading this, I&#8217;m asuming you care at least a bit. \ud83d\ude42 So, a short introduction might be in order for some readers&#8230; here goes: my name is Casper, I&#8217;m (at this moment) a 27 year old guy living in Voorburg, the Netherlands. 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