From the makers of InspIRCd.
peavey
Started on IRC back in 1995 on undernet on the channel #friendly under the nick 'faster'.. Now I quickly changed that after joining a few danish channels (since 'faster' means 'aunt' in danish) to peavey. I just happened to play guitar in a band and peavey amps had a cool logo, so I picked that.. Very unoriginal I know but it stuck with me ever since.
Linux
1995 was also the year a good friend introduced me to Linux and Red Hat 5, and we quickly setup #linux.dk on undernet which we used to meet and share experiences with other linux users from Denmark. This is where I picked up LAMP doing our site and coding on our eggdrop bot and heavy web integration. I made as sucky PHP as any back then, but in 2000 I was hired by a startup web co. and worked for almost 4 years as both the Linux server park admin and LAMP dev. Then onto a job as a java casual games dev for almost 4 years, also doing most admining on the linux server park, and now back to LAMP again. Needless to say I'm hooked on Linux both privately and for work and that will probably not change any time soon :)
OSS and InspIRCd
As part of my past work experience and all my involvement in IRC I came looking for a good clean IRCd that was easy to modify. I found InspIRCd on SF.net and instantly took to the mysql + sqlauth module which I thought was the bomb. I had hacked together Hybrid 7 + PHP shell scripts for just that earlier and thought this was great for a closed community site + chat. Instantly I found some bugs in the modules and started doing patches and nagging Brain about applying them. Not long passed before I joined as a dev. This also hilights me picking up C and C++ for the first time. I'm still learning in my usual self-taught life-hacker cowboy-style and I use code examples and bare syntax reference for learning new stuff. Not books and tutorials, but boldly go head first :)
Mini Bio
Born sometime in June 1976 in the year of the Dragon and the element of fire, this new pod was ready to take on the world. At around age 10 the Commodore 64 entered the scene and changed this young pod's life forever. And over the following handful of years the love for hardware, programming and playing games just grew. The C64 turned into an A500, assembler and demo-scene programming was predominant, and then by strange odds of fate at around age 15 entered the first PC which was to be a whole new beginning.... {to be continued}
