Tcl'er since ~1994 
(my boss put me into a group to develop a SW management tool based on Tcl/Tk).

Until now I wrote a huge amount of Tcl/Tl software mostly used by German companies.
This is just a subset (I can not remember all the projects)

1. Banking:

 1. a couple of tools used to setup and maintain a SW known as “Kondor” (by Reuters).
   “Kondor” is used as back-office SW mostly for money exchange and money-market deals. 
   I wrote a plug in technology to extend the default features of “Kondor” with special 
   customer reports (all together ~ 20 independent projects)

 2. a couple of tools used to setup and maintain a SW known as “Xetra” and “Eurex”.
   “Xetra” and “Eurex” is a SW for management of Stock and Option Market issues
   (something like Ebay for the big guys) (all together ~ 10 independent projects)

2. Telecommunication:

 1. a couple of tools used to setup and maintain a SW known as “Ars” (by Remedy).
   This SW is used to create 3-tier database based Applications. The GUI is a generic tool 
   called “Remedy User” and acts like a “Web-Browser for Ars special data”. This mean all 
   the application-logic is placed in the server and no application specific client-setup 
   is necessary. First I designed a Tcl-Extension to act with the Ars-Api. With this ex-
   tension I wrote a huge amount of tools to do near everything with Ars and the applica-
   tions run on it. (all together ~ 30 independent projects)

3. Industry:

 1. At the end of the last millennium I had the ill idea to write a compiler for Tcl.
   I call this SW just “Compiler” and used it to compile tcl-scripts into native binaries.
   This works very well on all known Tcl-Host-Os's like the different kinds of Unix's, Mac Os 
   and Windows. The benefits are speed (significant faster), security (nobody can read your 
   code) and easiness (putting everything together). But I call this project useless because 
   I never got my investment back. The only thing i learned:
  1. every SW project is possible if you put the right guys at the right place
  2. never try to make business with people who have no money
  3. never start a project before you know to get the money back

 2. A tool for connecting “something” together. This is a very generic description but its just 
   a generic tool. This tool is used to connect very different software (mostly a legacy 
   application) with other software (mostly something useful or something hype). Connecting 
   means the connected SW acts like one SW but with the benefit of independent roots.

 3. I call me 100% Unix and this mean in 2004 100% (Linux, SunSolaris, ..) 100% (MacOsX) and 
   100% Windows (SFU). The later one I discovered this year (2004) to finally close my last 
   OS world gap. Windows (SFU) or [Interix] is a full Unix running as a Windows subsystem and 
   used to provide a Posix infrastructure to the Windows OS. I maintain the Tcl/Tk port to 
   [Interix] (because I'm the first one who did it). Together with Tcl/Tk I've done an Expect 
   port as well.

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