Personal

Who is foosel?

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 then playing games on the things, 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 to 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 after that.

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. While still busy coding and administrating stuff at my current job, I'm now also on the lookout for a job in the industry in the near future, to maximize the percentage of my time spent with development ;-) .

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 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.

How to reach me

See my contact details or the imprint.

Where else to find me

Facebook
flickr
Friendfeed
geocaching.com
identi.ca
last.fm
LibraryThing
LinkedIn
soup.io
Stumbleupon
~~Twitter~~ – I deleted my Twitter account in favor of my identi.ca account⁵⁾
XING

Publications

[2008, inproceedings]: Häußge, G., Hartle, M., Neziri, A., & Rößling, G. (2008). Plug'n'Present: Eine referentenorientierte Infrastruktur zur Präsentation und Aufzeichnung von Vorlesungen. Paper presented at the Proceedings der 6. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik DeLFI2008, Lübeck, Deutschland.
[2007, inproceedings]: Häußge, G. (2007). Flexible Verteilung und einheitliche Bedienung von interaktiven Visualisierungen. Paper presented at the Proceedings der Pre-Conference Workshops der 5. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik DeLFI 2007, Siegen, Deutschland.
[2007, mastersthesis]: Häußge, G. ((2007). AFFE - Ein System zur Einbettung dynamischer Visualisierungen in den Digitalen Hörsaal.). Unpublished Master's Dissertation.
[2007, inproceedings]: Bär, H., Häußge, G., & Rößling, G. (2007). An Integrated System for Interaction Support in Lectures. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), Dundee, Scotland.
[2004, inproceedings]: Rößling, G., & Häußge, G. (2004). Towards Tool-Independent Interaction Support. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Third International Program Visualization Workshop, Warwick, England.