About
The information on this page is separated into two sections: The first section is about the author of this website, Xography. The second one contains information about the website, backgrounds a basic time line for those interested.
About the author
I really hate writing about myself, so I’ll try to keep It short and objective.
The sole author and maintainer of this website and blog is Felix ‘Xography’ Bruckner, a 22-year old German individual, studying at university (currently working towards a bachelor degree in Computer Science). I live in a town between Heidelberg and Mannheim, Schwetzingen (which is renowned all over the world for its wonderful asparagus – the vegetable I detest the most, mainly caused by childhood traumas of weeks filled with a constant supply of asparagus in spring / early summer, prepared in literally a myriad of ways. A German website currently lists 2217 recipes. So much for keeping it objective).
I could now write about my hobbies, that I’m obviously interested in computers and programming, that I play the guitar, like to read books (I hereby recommend George R. R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire series and his other books), that I love music (my Last FM profile) – but I guess this wouldn’t be of interest anyway.
I’ve been using the nickname Xography since 2002, shamelessly stealing it from the German demo group Xography after watching their demo Uneatable.
A quick programming skills overview: 6 years of Java experience (Skill level: expert/advanced), 8 years of C++ experience (skill level: advanced), standard knowledge of Assembler and Interpreter based languages (PHP, Python, …), several years of experience with Databases (SQL) and object oriented techniques (UML, OOD, OOA), more information can be found on my XING profile.
About the website
The domain gatewayheaven.com was registered in early 2003 to serve as a home of a young indie startup association, Gateway Heaven Interactive grown in the minds of a bunch of pupils. Since I’ve been asked this: This website/domain name has no religious association whatsoever even though it might suggest a christian background. I can’t remember why we came up just with this name.
Digging web.archive.org may reveal some of the previous version of this website, I won’t post them here since they were shaped by dilettantism and contained no content worth publishing again. Of course the projects aimed for were simply beyond feasible. The initial idea soon abandoned, it served more as a DNS entry for a leased server hosting several services run by young people, the obvious game server, IRC proxies, teamspeak servers – you name it. The http services were limited on hosting some personal websites, but there wasn’t a “real” top level website for a long time except some single page splash site.
Since I’m paying quite some money for the server and domain and wanted to launch a website hosting my projects and a blog for quite some time I’ve decided to revive the main website as a personal webspace.