My blog is born :-)

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It’s not that I’m so smart,
it’s just that I stay with problems longer
Albert Einstein

Hi, and welcome to my blog on various topics of programming that interest me in some way during the weeks, months and years of performing different tasks around the office. It all started some decades ago with a for cycle in qbasic on a pre 8086 personal computer. Then with intense mathematics in the Mathematical High School, and to finish the formal education with Informatics bachelor degree from Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Through the university I had the opportunity for 3 years to be a teaching assistant in "Introduction to Programing", "Data Structure and Algorithms" and "Object Oriented Programing" in C/C++ . It was quite thrilling and lifting experience with immediate and mostly nice feedback. I still miss this kind of job, because of the energy that you can feel in a classroom. And one day I might go back..

For the last 7 years I am full time employee for a software company - MPS, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Its sole business is to provide software services for Siemens Sorting Logistics for Postal Automation based in Konstanz, south of Germany. Siemens Sorting Logistics as a leader in Postal Automation has major customers, mainly national postal services, all around the world. And because of that - we are frequent flayers. Which is cool, as long as it is not too much, and does not interfere with your personal schedule (its not fun to miss a good friend birthday, because of a business trip).

Siemens Sorting Logistics provides solutions for processing letters, flats and packages. It produces big(some of them can fill up a stadium) machines to handle and move them around. And the interesting part is that each mail item is scanned with high enough resolution, and the different markings are recognized - like barcodes, addresses, stamps, meter marks, business reply markings. Which is pretty amazing. We at MPS are mainly involved with system development and configuration, project maintenance, sometimes with system and component design, and lately with project management.

And all this years through University and professional work C and C++ is the main language for expressing and implementing ideas. Thus most of the articles naturally involve it in some way or another. Yet still some are related just to interesting or baffling task that I happen to stumble.

Special thanks to Henrico Dolfing for the idea of blogging on professional topics! I use to do it only for funny stuff.

Have fun reading and programing !

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