====== About me ======

===== Who is foosel? =====

{{personal:me.jpg?150 |Gina 'foosel' Häußge}}
In a nutshell: a female geek who is happy as long as she has stuff to code ;-) Oh you want the longer version? Oookay, here we go... 

I was actually born as Gina Häußge (on March 21st 1983 to be exact) and am currently living in a small flat in [[http://www.darmstadt.de|Darmstadt, Germany]], together with *counts* four or something computers and my other half [[http://demod.org|Phil]] aka 'demod'. That whole fascination with PCs and especially programming started a long time ago, when my parents and me got an Apple II/e as our first computer -- a gift from my uncle. I was six or maybe seven back then and of course wanted nothing more than to play games on the thing, a wish which my father blocked with the words "This is a working machine and nothing to play on". So he showed me a couple of basic commands (as in both easy and [[wp>BASIC]]) to print stuff on the screen and build simple loops, and thus a happy elementary school pupil was introduced to the world of programming.

Took quite a few years for me to realize that there was more than just BASIC (namely first [[wp>C_(programming_language)|C]] and then [[wp>Pascal_(programming_language)|Pascal]] thanks to school, later followed by [[wp>C++|C++]], [[wp>PHP]], [[wp>Java_(programming_language)|Java]], [[wp>Perl]] and [[wp>Python]]((to be continued... ;-)))), and it took me even longer to get that there was something different than DOS and Windows (namely in my case [[wp>Linux]]((I prefer [[http://debian.org|Debian]] as my distribution of choice))).

After my graduation from school in 2002, I enrolled at [[http://www.tu-darmstadt.de|Technische Universität Darmstadt]](("Darmstadt University of Technology")), where I got my degree of "Diplom-Informatiker"((comparable to a MSc in Computer Science)) in April 2007 and immediately took on a job as Research Assistant/PhD student after that in the same department I had worked as an undergraduate student worker/software developer since 2004. 

I later realized that I was not that interested in a PhD as I thought I was, and am more keen on hands-on development and software design. Thus in August 2008 I decided to abandon my PhD plans and started on the hunt for a job in the industry. Successfully I might add: I will start my career as a software engineer for [[http://capgemini-sdm.com|Capgemini sd&m]] in January 2009.

TBC :-)

===== Why "foosel"? =====

That nick was a rather spontaneous creation on a quite evening a couple of years back. It is based on a combination of the [[wp>Metasyntactic_variable|metasyntactic variable]] [[wp>Foo|"foo"]] and -- since I was heavily into reading [[wp>User_friendly|User Friendly]] back then and to this date simply adore the Dust Puppy -- the german word for lint, "Fussel", which I kind of find cute ;-). I somehow liked the combined result and stuck to it as my nick.

===== How to reach me =====

See my [[:personal:contact]] details or the [[:personal:imprint|imprint]].

===== Where else to find me =====

==== ... on the web ====

  * [[http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?uid=90906&show=myvotes&orderdir=1&orderby.vote=0.2&orderby.name=1.1&orderby=vote&do=anime&epp=40|AniDB]]
  * [[http://claimid.com/foosel|claimID]]
  * [[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1138330456|Facebook]]
  * [[http://www.flickr.com/people/foosel/|flickr]]
  * [[http://friendfeed.com/foosel|Friendfeed]]
  * [[http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=a4309482-eb86-470d-9018-62f8b2a26658|geocaching.com]]
  * [[http://identi.ca/foosel|identi.ca]]
  * [[http://www.last.fm/user/foosel|last.fm]]
  * [[http://www.librarything.com/home/foosel|LibraryThing]]
  * [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/ginahaeussge|LinkedIn]]
  * [[http://soup.foosel.org|soup.io]]
  * [[http://foosel.stumbleupon.com|Stumbleupon]]
  * <del>[[http://twitter.com/foosel|Twitter]]</del> -- I deleted my Twitter account in favor of my [[http://identi.ca/foosel|identi.ca]] account((Open minds, open sources, open future ;-)))
  * [[https://www.xing.com/profile/Gina_Haeussge|XING]]

==== ... ingame ====

  * Nintendo DS
    * Tetris DS: ''404 714 206 313''
    * Mario Kart DS: ''111 800 625 917''
  * Nintendo Wii
    * Wii Console: ''3607 0657 5165 4376''
    * Mario Kart Wii: ''3394 3826 2095''
    * Super Smash Bros Brawl: ''1247 0195 9046''

  * PlayStation Network/PlayStation 3: **thefoosel**
  * [[http://worldofgoo.com/|World Of Goo]]: **goosel**((I couldn't resist...))

===== Publications =====

<bibtex>
@InProceedings{HHN+2008,
  author = {Gina Häußge and Michael Hartle and Amir Neziri and Guido Rößling},
  title = {Plug'n'Present: Eine referentenorientierte Infrastruktur zur Präsentation und Aufzeichnung von Vorlesungen},
  published = {n/a},
  booktitle = {Proceedings der 6. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik DeLFI2008, Lübeck, Deutschland},
  year = 2008,
  pages = {161--172},
}

@InProceedings{Haeussge2007b,
  author = {Gina Häußge},
  title = {Flexible Verteilung und einheitliche Bedienung von interaktiven Visualisierungen},
  publisher = {Logos Verlag Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland},
  booktitle = {Proceedings der Pre-Conference Workshops der 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik DeLFI 2007, Siegen, Deutschland},
  year = 2007,
  pages = {85--92},
}

@MastersThesis{Haeussge2007a,
  author =       {Gina Häußge},
  title =        {AFFE - Ein System zur Einbettung dynamischer Visualisierungen in den Digitalen Hörsaal},
  year =         2007,
  school =       {Technische Universität Darmstadt},
  file = {personal:diplomathesis-ginahaeussge.pdf},
}

@InProceedings{BHR2007,
  author = {Henning Bär and Gina Häußge and Guido Rößling},
  title = {An Integrated System for Interaction Support in Lectures},
  publisher = {ACM Press, New York, NY, USA},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland},
  year = 2007,
  pages = {329},
}

@InProceedings{RH2004,
  author =    {Guido Rößling and Gina Häußge},
  title =     {Towards Tool-Independent Interaction Support},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Program
               Visualization Workshop, Warwick, England},
  pages =     {110-117},
  editor =  {Ari Korhonen},
  year =      2004,
}
</bibtex>

===== Skillsheet =====

==== Programming languages ====

^ Programming Language ^ Skill Level ^
| Java | {{rate>3/3}} |
| PHP | {{rate>3/3}} |
| Python | {{rate>2/3}} |
| Perl | {{rate>2/3}} |
| C/C++ | {{rate>2/3}} |
| JavaScript | {{rate>2/3}} |
| ActionScript | {{rate>1/3}} |
| Groovy | {{rate>1/3}} |

Legend:
  * {{rate>1/3}} -- Basic knowledge ("I've read the books, now all I need is a chance to use it!")
  * {{rate>2/3}} -- Hands-on experience ("Used it on a couple of projects, but give me some seconds to re-adjust...")
  * {{rate>3/3}} -- Extensive experience ("$LANGUAGE? Been coding that for years, what do you want to know?")

==== Operating systems ====

^ Operating System ^ Skill Level ^
| Linux (Debian derivate) | {{rate>3/3}} |
| Linux (generic) | {{rate>2/3}} |
| Solaris 8 | {{rate>2/3}} |
| Solaris 10 | {{rate>2/3}} |
| Windows (Client) | {{rate>2/3}} |
| Mac OS X (Client) | {{rate>1/3}} |

Legend:

  * {{rate>1/3}} -- Basic knowledge ("Give me Google and some time and I can work with it.")
  * {{rate>2/3}} -- Hands-on experience  ("I regularly have the possibility to refresh my knowledge on this one.")
  * {{rate>3/3}} -- Daily usage ("The first thing I boot up in the morning.")