Casper Holmgaard Quitzau AKA SeeQue
The "private" person
Yep! thats me :-)The title/nickname "SeeQue" comes from my younger days where a nick-name for lan-parties was more or less required. It is kind of a distortion of my initials "CQ", and has stuck with me ever since.
Now used for emails and as my personal domain: www.seeque.dk
I am 50 years old, and I live in Kolding, but have my origin in Esbjerg. On my way here i have been living in Vejen in Jylland, and a good while in Odense where i studied for Computer Science (Datamatiker). I know, is sounds a lot cooler in english ;-).
Before that became student (HTX) here in Kolding before i moved on to Odense, but moved back here because of my lovely wife for now 16 years, and that we found our own little "castle" here.
Now the famile has grown to contain my wife Lisbeth (46), my daughter Nanna (15), my son Simon (10) and as the newest addition, our dog Muffin.
My family is undoubtedly the most important thing in my life.
At one point I saw a further development of a saying which read: "
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... If the doctor is cute then forget the fruit"So for over 16 years now I have loved and kept my very own cute doctor close to my heart, and together we have a lovely girl who loves horses and a handball loving boy.
... and i might not eat as much fruit at i probably should ;-).
The "working" person
Not always easy to separate the working person from the private person. Especially not when hobby, interest and work overlap.In general, i have a good logical sense and a great deal nerd in the blood. As a person i am open minded and with a fair portion of humor. Curiosity about not only what I work with, but also what goes together with it is a natural part of me.
I am a man with a good sense of order and with a large portion of perfection (for good and for worse), and therefor I want the things i work with to be unique and with at a high quality.
I am also what you can call a "sensitive person" which among other tings, promotes a strong sense of order and a need to have a certain overview of available information and what I work with. Because I am aware of this, I see it as a strength that can help me understand other people and be able to see through certain complex work tasks.
Core PHP is my core competency, which I have worked with professionally and as a hobbyist for around 20 years.
I have worked with the whole stack in web development, but I definitely see myself as a backend developer.
My knowledge of the entire stack only strengthens my ability to see through problems and anticipate any unforeseen problems.
Welcome to the SeeQue domain(s)
This is what you can call my private part of the web. This is my personal face on the web, but this allso has related domains primarily for testing and development. On these there is no guarantee that all links work or the site having any reasonable content.You could use the old Danish saying "
The shoemaker's son always wears in the poorest shoes", but ill try to continously update the sites and/or any links on it.The real changes are primarily on my backend projects og projects not yet ready for the public, and at the moment my hobby projects includes following:
- A collection of code snippets, classes and ideas optimized and adjusted to be included into misc PHP projects as a common code base. It is called "I.Q. Core"
- An experimental API based on "I.Q. Core"
- A CMS system called "I.Q. Builder" based on "I.Q. Core"
Why my own site/server
"Reinventing the wheel", "using to much electricity" and "could have been done easier" comes in mind when it comes to sites hosted on the server running at home and whatever projects im runnig on it, but at some point i need to have my own "sandbox" for experimenting with PHP-deleopment and server/linux setup.Anyway, running my own server it is.
And to cut down on energy consumption, I have been through several hardware options but ended up chosing to use ARM technology in the form of two modified Raspberry PI400's
If successfully set up an ARM workstation from SolidRun (A Honeycomb LX2K) might take over.
PHP and MySql which is my primary development skills screams for linux, and ARM was an obvious choise when it came to power consumption. So To be able to keep experimenting and have free access to change software as well as hardware configurations this was the best solution for for my own "sandbox" where i could break a few things without messing it up for others.
For the more stable part of my setup for emails and sites, i have choosen to use Gigahost. This might change in the future if i find a better solution, or get confident enough in my own private setup.
The need for a garden shed for tools and more made us talk about building a shed down in our garden.