full name
Salvatore ISAJA

member since
12 September 2000

date/place of birth
22 August 1978, in Messina, Italy

residence
Civitanova Marche (MC), Italy

marital status
Happily engaged since 1996 ;-)

education
Graduated in Electronic Engineering at University of Ancona. Worked on a Digital Signal Processing thesis regarding automatic transcription of polyphonic music (March 2005).

occupation
Since November 2005, developer for a small software house providing automated solutions for business.

computers experience
Started fighting with such infernal machines at the age of 11 or 12, with a Toshiba MSX2, making several useless programs ;-). The first PC was an Amstrad PC1640 with an 8086 processor and no hard disk, MS-DOS 3.20 and GEM GUI. After the BASIC times moved to Pascal programming for a while, and next to C. Now a pleased Debian GNU/Linux user.

programming skills
C/C++, DOS and Win32 API, x86 assembly, HTML+CSS, some trivial PHP and Javascript

computer interests
Digital audio, graphics, user interface, low level

hobbies
Strolling around with girlfriend, playing and listening music, reading books, watching brain-damaged cartoons, woodworking (guitar building), writing amazing software :-)

favorites
film: The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson
anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
writer: Frederick Forsyth
food: pizza, cheese, chocolate (light stuff! ;-)
music: rock, electronic, classical, almost everything
instrument: electric guitar, piano, drums and stringed instruments in general
sport: volleyball, beach volley
animal: obviously, three-toed sloth
relax: sleeping... maybe too much!