Hi, I’m Felix

I’m a software developer / geek from Germany and you have found my private homepage.

You can contact me via mail: felix ( a t ) planbnet ( d o t ) org

I like writing Mac software and have a quite successful little side project on the Mac App Store: PDFScanner scans documents and performs OCR to make them searchable. It has a responsive, clean UI and eliminates the need for the crappy software that comes with your scanner. I’ve gone completely paperless for my private mail and documents using a combination of PDFScanner and Dropbox (and you should, too). I’m still searching for a great idea for an iOS app.

On my day job, I’m a Java Web Developer (mostly JSF) but I try to spice it up with a bit of client side UX goodness here and there. I guess you can call me a full stack web developer: I know how to compile a Linux kernel, speak SQL fluently and I can create state of the art HTML markup.

I have some projects on github. Check them out or fork them if you like.

I have made some private webapps (no links, personal use only) implemented in rails and ruby is my favorite scripting language because I can put whitespaces where I like them (I’m looking at you, python).

I collect links to interesting projects and articles in my pinboard.in bookmarks.

I started blogging a few times on different platforms and abandoned them soon afterwards. I have not completely given up, so here’s a link to my current iteration. In 2002, I hacked my own private blog in PHP (later hosted on this domain) which soon became a kind of social network for me and my friends. It was extended over the years and we used it extensively for some years to organize parties and share all kinds of stuff, but it recently died out. You can still find the current version on www.planbnet.de (German and sometimes NSFW).

I tweet seldom and in german.

There are some photos I took on my flickr page. I hope I’ll soon find the time to shoot some more photos that are worth posting there.

Before I became a podcast addict, I listened to music a lot. There are still some occasional scrobbles added to my last.fm account. Thanks to iTunes Match, I’m currently rediscovering my music library, but unfortunately iOS devices can’t scrobble properly.

You can friend me on Facebook (if your know me IRL), but please don’t invite me to play silly games.

I used to go under the nickname sharc (which is still my twitter name), which is an acronym for something I probably knew when I was 16 but have forgotten over the time. I recently abandoned it because I figured people were thinking I did not know how to spell shark. Nowadays, I’m mostly planb or just felix.

I have a 3 year old son and he’s the coolest kid on earth.