i'm rafif, although i generally go by the name of raf. you pronounce my name as "ra-feef".
i was born in nineteen-eighty-five in northern iraq. i've since lived in scotland and england, but now find myself living in melbourne, australia.
i completed a bachelor of software engineering (with honours) at monash university.
i dig football, design, food, music and almost all things tech. i don't blog, but i do ramble tweet.
this site is my home - get in touch with me.
| c / c++ | 3 |
i essentially started to learn programming in c, going through compiler logic and asm. have some opengl knowledge too. |
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| objective-c / cocoa | 1 |
recently switched to the macintosh platform and love working in obj-c and cocoa. have also dabbled with iphone development. |
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| php / mysql / xhtml / css / js | 7 |
i first touched html back at age 10 (view-source was my friend) and eventually self-taught myself the rest. worked on web development at various jobs while studying. |
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| perl / cgi | 1 |
not a perl guru by any stretch of the imagination, but have written a public transport journey planner (university project) in perl - it worked too! |
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| asp.net / c# / mssql | 2 |
the microsoft .net platform also has received some of my love with a few asp.net websites and databases produced. |
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| mac os x / windows / linux | 3 |
i have a bit of multi-threading and process knowledge on the unix side and know my way around all three platforms very well. |
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| xcode / visual studio / eclipse | 4 |
worked in all ide's when a text editor didn't suffice. |
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| scm (subversion / cvs / git) | 4 |
svn add skills.txt; svn commit -m "pretty good"; |
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| adobe creative suite | 6 |
learnt my motion tweens in flash 3 and can work my way around photoshop's palettes quite well - by no means am i a graphic designer though. |
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* years experience (approx)