Kristian’s look on things

I’m currently involved with the work going on at Opencompositing.org, and I was a Beryl developer before the merge. I’ve written Opacify, Trailfocus2 (Which is a rewrite of a rewrite, sort of), ADDHelper (Which took about an hour to write) and the debug plugin. I’ve also written a few scripts for Compiz Fusion (Compiz-manager and get-git).

One of the areas I’ve focused most on is multihead; both the popular “bigscreen” multihead (TwinView, MergedFB, Xinerama, it’s basically the same for Compiz/Beryl) and recently the less popular, but traditional multi-screen setup. I’m currently involved with improving zoom, as a Google Summer of Code project for Ubuntu.

Born and raised in Oslo, Norway in 1983. I’ve been into computers for as long as I can remember, long before I could read or write. I wrote my first “program” in BasicA at age 9, or thereabouts.

I’ve been using GNU/Linux for roughly 8 years now, and despite working on a composite window manager, I’ve never been a sucker for eye candy. I’ve always been more interested in the functional aspects of computing.

I’m currently studying at Oslo University College to finish my Bachelor in Computer Science. I spent a couple of years doing IDS analysis at Telenor SOC in Arendal (also Norway) before that.

You’ll usually find me on IRC when I’m bored, otherwise I suggest an e-mail if you want to reach me

You can reach me at kristian@bohemians.org. No, I didn’t care to obfuscate that. My mailbox receives enough spam for me not to care about a little more. Spam filters work, apparently.

I have not been involved in many free software projects as a developer, and I do not have a lot of experience when it comes to programming compared to many others, to be honest. Despite this, I consider myself very proficient at C and general hacking. I’ve used C for roughly 7 years for several minor projects, and I’ve also been known to work with PHP, Java and to a lesser degree; C#, C++, Python and assembly. When I code, I’ve learned the hard way that keeping code clean pays off, so that’s something I always have in mind.