Name: Mikhail V. Shokhirev Nickname: Mike Shock Birth date: 12th of November 1958 Profession: software developer  & consultant Location: Shadrinsk, Russian Federation (somewhere between the Urals & Siberia) Email: mikhail@shokhirev.com WWW: http://www.shokhirev.com/mikhail/

More details are in my resume.

My professional interests include:

• Programming languages: Perl, Java, C#, Ruby, C++, C, Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, PL/1, Fortran, Cobol.
• I enjoy Perl, and it suites me most. But I used to write programs using the languages mentioned above.
• Network programming: webservices - XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI.
• It's very interesting to develop cross-platform object-oriented systems .
• Web-technologies: Apache, CGI, JavaScript/ECMAscript, HTML/DHTML, AJAX, DOM, CSS.
• You need to know much more than these...
• XML-technologies: XSL, XHTML, XUL, SVG, SMIL, WebDAV, Jabber / XMPP.
  
• Tracing their development since 1997, and actually using them.
• Cross-platform solutions: Java (Java SE/ME/EE), Mozilla, OpenOffice, Eclipse, JDeveloper
  
• Work is comfortabe when the environment's the same across different OSes...
• DBMS/SQL: [Visual] FoxPro, PostreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MySQL, DBI, JDBC.
• There's no serious  programming without databases, is it?
• Object-oriented programming (OOP), design (OOD), analysis (OOA): UML.
• I liked OOP from the my first aquaintance with it and I still believe that nothinsg's better.
• Component-base distributed multi-tier systems: Java EE, Mozilla, .NET/Mono, Ruby on Rails.
  
• Thin client + application server + ... + RDBMS = reliable scalable system
• Operating systems: Unix (Linux, *BSD), Novell NetWare, OS/2, Windows 9x/2000/XP/2003.
• I fell in love with Unix long ago and love Linux greatly, but have to work under Windows as well...
• Text processing: regular expressions (regexes), macroprocessing.
• It's all because of my linguistic nature.