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 Darmstadt, Germany, together with *counts* four or something computers and my other half 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 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 C and then Pascal thanks to school, later followed by C++, PHP, Java, Perl and Python¹⁾), and it took me even longer to get that there was something different than DOS and Windows (namely in my case Linux²⁾).

After my graduation from school in 2002, I enrolled at Technische Universität Darmstadt³⁾, where I got my degree of “Diplom-Informatiker”⁴⁾ 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 became a software engineer for Capgemini sd&m in January 2009.

TBC

That nick was a rather spontaneous creation on a quite evening a couple of years back. It is based on a combination of the metasyntactic variable "foo" and – since I was heavily into reading 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.

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• AniDB
• BoardGameGeek
• brickset.com
• claimID
• delicious
• Facebook
• flickr
• Formspring.me
• Friendfeed
• geocaching.com
• Google.com Profile
• identi.ca
• last.fm Deleted after I learned about that data giveaway party for the RIAA of them. So long last.fm, it was fun while it lasted.
• LibraryThing
• LinkedIn
• Ravelry
• soup.io
• Stumbleupon
• Twitter – only for the sake of completeness, my primary means of microblogging is my identi.ca account⁵⁾
• XING

• PlayStation Network/PlayStation 3: thefoosel
• Steam: foosel
• Impulse: thefoosel
  • My "Demigod" profile
• World Of Goo: goosel⁶⁾
• 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

Programming Language	Skill Level
Java
PHP
Python
Perl
C/C++
JavaScript
ActionScript
Groovy

Legend:

• – Basic knowledge (“I've read the books, now all I need is a chance to use it!”)
• – Hands-on experience (“Used it on a couple of projects, but give me some seconds to re-adjust…”)
• – Extensive experience (“$LANGUAGE? Been coding that for years, what do you want to know?”)

Operating System	Skill Level
Linux (Debian derivate)
Linux (generic)
Solaris 8
Solaris 10
Windows (Client)
Mac OS X (Client)

Legend:

• – Basic knowledge (“Give me Google and some time and I can work with it.”)
• – Hands-on experience (“I regularly have the possibility to refresh my knowledge on this one.”)
• – Daily usage (“The first thing I boot up in the morning.”)