Patrick Kosiol is a brown eyed, dark brown haired, right-handed, well educated, meat loving, purpose driven, happily jobless, reality manipulating, risk taking, goal seeking, problem solving, early rising, passive income generating, highly motivated, energetic, disciplined, persistent, optimistic, fearless, and pro active... writer, speaker, blogger, computer programmer, entrepreneur and archetypal Cancer. He's extroverted introvert, a logical intuitive, and an insatiably curious seeker of the truth. As a nonsmoker Patrick mostly gets pissed off if someone wants to poison the live-loving people's air. He feels no sympathy for people who die on lung cancer caused by intensive smoking.

Right after Patrick was born in Eastern-Germany (the former socialistic part of Germany) he overcame his fulfilled childhood and finished his school and university studies on computer science. Serendipitously, Patrick remained addicted to the "intelligence w/o morale" as a child of the e-generation. He started to work, study and live abroad to enrich his view of life and become one of the most intensely growth-oriented individuals you'll ever know.

[c ... closed source | o ... open source]

VideoSim [c]:
is a driving simulator based on real tracks in combination with the according GPS positions. In the scope of human machine interaction (HMI) research, there was a need to offer the driver more complex driving situations as every existing simulator at the HMI research center had. It is written in Java using the Java Media Framework (JMF) to render the recorded MPEG4 encoded videostreams. In addition there is used a wrapper called JXInput to get access to Windows' DirectX interface for using speed pedals and the steering wheel.

Publish Subscriber Service [o]:
is a lightweight client-server based framework to subscribe an information service by category which's information is served (published) by the server. It is based on Peter J Jones' (formerly pmade.org) SafePt POSIX thread wrapper and the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).

Guestbook [c]:
is a lighweight guestbook implementation using CSS, JavaScript, PHP and a MySQL database.

SL [o]:
was a project to teach the students how to act and work in a team. Its target was to provide an ArcIMS based information system for students about interesting places nearby the university.

Bfpl [c]:
is a client-server system to provide a network wide information system for train schedules of a company's railway network. Server and client are written in Java (servlet/applet combination) using an Apache Tomcat web server to provide the schedule information from an proprietary file database.

TaBu [c]:
is a program for achievement disposition at railway companies. It is written in C++ using the QT framework and the object-oriented database Fastobjects e7.

[2003-01] Report for project Bfpl (German | PDF).

[2003-02] Presentation for project Bfpl (German | PDF).

[2003-10] Presentation for project Guestbook (German | PDF).

[2004-01] Report - Attacking computersystems (German | PDF).

[2004-01] Presentation - Attacking computersystems (German | PDF).

[2004-10] Diploma thesis - project VideoSim (German with English abstract | PDF).

[2004-10] Presentation - project VideoSim (German | PDF).

[2004-11] HowTo install the TeX/LaTeX editor LyX using Windows (English | HTML).

[2005-04] HowTo get the MS Windows XP SP2 Bluetooth stack work with officially not supported Bluetooth devices (English | HTML).

[2005-11] HowTo install Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL on a FreeBSD box; optional with phppgadmin. (soon)

[2005-12] Presentation - Wireless part of "Communication in Data Networks" in cooperation with Tobias Giese at "Salza Gymnasium" Bad Langensalza (German | PDF).

[2007-04] HowTo setup a Server4You vServer to serve SSL (German | HTML).

1980 * in Bad Langensalza / Germany.

1992 got the first PC (i286, 8/16MHz, 1MB Ram, 20MB HDD).

1994 wrote the first small Qbasic program (MS DOS 5.0).

1996 got access to the internet.

1999 gratuated from Salza Gymnasium ("Abitur").

1999-2000 federal services in German army.

2000-2004 studies of Communications and Application of Information Technologies at HS Harz University of Applied Studies and Research (Wernigerode).

2001-2002 test and software engineer for project TaBu at HS Harz in cooperation with IBS GmbH Hanover.

2002 fair exhibitor for the project TaBu at CeBIT Hanover.

2002-2003 software engineer - project Bfpl at IBS GmbH Hanover.

2003 tutor at HS Harz for the classes: programs and datastructures, geo information systems and object-oriented programming.

2003 team leader (of 8 team members) for the project SL at HS Harz.

2004 fair exhibitor for project TaBu at CeBIT Hanover.

2004 software engineer for project VideoSim at Robert Bosch GmbH Hildesheim, department Cooperate Research and Development in the scope of HMI.

2004 gratuated from HS Harz with the german Dipl.-Inf.(FH) degree.

2005-2006 chinese language (mandarin) studies at Yunnan Normal University.

2005-2007 living in Kunming (People's Republic of China).

2005-~ software engineer (head of development) at Skylab Mobilesystems Ltd. in the scope of geo information systems on mobile devices.

2006-~ co-founded S4BB Limited and acts as CEO.

2006-~ founded Nezok Research Labs Limited.

2007 appointed Director at Skylab Mobilesystems Ltd..

2008-~ living in Hong Kong SAR.

Patrick Kosiol - contact[AT]patrick-kosiol[DOT]de