I am a software engineer with more than two decades of experience in program design and coding, including over ten years of both commercial and open-source development career.
My first contact with Unix like operating systems was Minix, back in early 1990's. I still remember feeling so excited and delighted to finally own a Unix playground I had been desperately longing to have. Then a few years later I got in touch with FreeBSD (somewhere around 1996), a true and complete BSD OS environment with everything equipped out of the box. It just amazed me that gcc, perl, Emacs and X Windows System were all there up and running on my own PC in front of my eye. It even had a complete source tree of kernel, device drivers and system commands you could freely read and hack on. Since then, FreeBSD has always been my most favorite platform to work on. I even got myself involved into the development, having been a committer since March 2000.
Besides FreeBSD, I have also been a Linux user since 1.3, a DOS user since 2.11, a Windows user since 3.0A, and a Macintosh user since System 3.0. For years now I mostly use Macs as my workstation of choice.
As a professional programmer, I have used around a dozen computer languages to develop commercial software of many kinds, including desktop applications and components, data processing systems, network services and web applications. While I have much longer commercial experiences with C, C++, Visual Basic, Perl, PHP and Java, my language of choice has been Ruby since late 1990s. Since 2001 I have been deeply involved in the development of Ruby as a committer.
My list of hobbies includes playing shogi (Japanese chess), solving puzzles, listening to music (especially progressive rock and heavy metal), having craft/microbrew beers (Japanese, American and Belgian), enjoying food and drink with my friends. I often share my love towards those things on Twitter/FriendFeed, so feel free to follow me if you feel like it. I mostly tweet in Japanese but never hesitate to talk to me in English or whatever language that's machine translatable or executable.
I got married last year and was blessed with a baby. My life is changing rapidly, but I will never stop satisfying my curiosity. I always feel it wonderful to have varied tastes and if I can ever entertain others by sharing what I am up to, that's my pleasure.
My family name MUSHA (武者) means samurai, or to translate it literally, "brave one". My given name, Akinori (晶紀) was named after two kanji that appear in a phrase "shine in the next (21th) century", which was my parents' hope for me.
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