Robert Klemme
I live and work in Germany. I am with a medium sized company that creates (and sells!) billing systems for telephone companies. These systems are amazingly complex beasts as they have a lot connections to other systems, databases, telephone network software and need real time as well as mass data processing capabilities. In my work I cover the whole range of software engineering tasks from design to trouble shooting.
My primary development language is Java and I do a lot SQL and PL/SQL development for those parts of our software that deal with Oracle databases. I am using Ruby on a daily basis for different tasks, mostly for
- Development tools (script based analysis and manipulation of source code, automation of version control system tasks etc.),
- Analysis of system behavior (log file based performance analysis, bug investigation etc.),
- Experimenting (especially finding solutions for interesting problems posted to ruby-talk").
When I am writing code (not just Ruby) I try to make it well structured, clear and efficient. This is what I will try to convey in my blog articles. Suggestions for improvements are welcome!
In case anybody wonders about my Gravatar : it’s a homage to Rowlf whom I loved to see appear in the Muppet Show a few years ago. In case anybody finds him as a hand puppet which is on sale somewhere, please let me know.
