Hi, my name is Alex, and I was craftsman for industrial electronic devices, but at the moment I am having a job (re)training for software development.

As a long-time participant of BOINC (I started with seti@home, when BOINC wasn´t even "born") and also Rosetta, I´ve discovered this interesting piece of software.
It is good to know that our kind of "playing" could help developing new medicines to fight AIDS or cancer.

Having a (benign) brain-tumor and recovering from a therapy of Hodgkin's Lymphoma (caused by cancer in white blood cells) makes me personally affected.

Programming is a hobby of me, I started on a Commodore 64 with BASIC (and a very little bit Assembler) in the end of the 80s.
Later, on different PCs it was QBASIC, some C and Tracker software like FT2), later VBASIC/VBA, and because of Fold.it I learned Lua by myself.
At the moment, I am dealing with HTML, JS, PHP and COBOL (part of the job-training).