Sven Neuhaus' private homepage

Welcome to Yet Another Homepage - since 1994!

Since you came here, you're probably looking for information about me. So here it goes...

Job.
I work at evision developing software in Java, OpenLaszlo and JavaScript.
Studies.
I studied computer science at the University of Dortmund after graduating from Canfield High School in 1990 and Leibniz Gymnasium Dortmund in 1992.

Computers & Internet.
PING e.V. is Germany's largest non-commercial club that provides affordable internet access to private individuals in the Dortmund area. My involvement with PING reaches back to its beginnings in 1992. I am on PINGs managing comittee.
I like to hack on my Linux box at home (perl rules). I also have an iPhone that I play around with.
Computer games.
Fortunately, I got to do for a living what I love to do in my spare time: Multiplayer online games. My all time favourite: Netrek. Another excellent one is Empire. My favourite single-player game of all times must be Elite. I'm still waiting for a massive multiplayer online version to appear. Meanwhile, Christian Pinder has used the original BBC sources for an excellent new version (alas, offline thanks to David Braben :-( ).
Aerial photography.
The HAEC has helped my get started with this hobby.
Sports.
I like scuba diving, Basketball, Badminton, windsurfing and snowboarding among others. I recently started playing golf and paragliding.
Travel.
I love traveling. Comes handy when you want to go diving in warm water :-)
Books
I wish I had more time to read. Here's my Amazon wishlist.

Bettina, my wife.
She's a babe.
Justus and Linus, my sons.
Michael,
All around nice guy and total UNIX guru. His web page is a bit lacking at the moment...
Dirk,
(former) Netrek geek, perl hacker, bigmouth (in the nicest possible way :-).
Rudolf, big brother.
avid surfer, hobbyist cook, wine and jazz fan.
Melanie & Boris
Frosch,
hardware wiz, game maniac, former roommate, Windows NT borg.
[MaTT],
Henry & Mad,
Chmul,
I'm trying to find people who spend 1989/1990 in Ohio, USA as Rotary exchange students and attended the Ohio-Erie Rotary bus tour 1990 (big picture). Contact me!
And many more w/out homepages...

Stuff I've written that I think might be useful for others.

TheCrown map tracker. AJAX application (more information available on demand).
DAoC Realm Abilities Configurator
JavaScript application for players of Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot.
TLD Wildcard watcher
Shell script to track changes in all TLD A-Record wildcards. Useful with this djbdns-patch if you don't like your typos to be logged.
Notify
Notify your website's visitors of changes to your pages.
Heise Compressor
Read the latest (german) Heise News, all on one page. Nice for mobile browsing.
Publications
I have written articles on (among others) JSON, cross platform encryption, geotagging that were published by c't and iX magazine.

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