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As you can see from the rest of this website, my tastes are fairly catholic. When not studying natural languages, I like to make constructed languages. I'm seriously involved in roleplaying, and I have, together with Irina and a small circle of friends, co-designed a role-playing system, Aurea.

A lifelong fascination for the exotic and the outré has led to the creation of an imaginary world, Andal, and while I am not especially musically talented (and, much to my chagrin, I cannot sing), I've composed a few bars of original music, and I play the clarinet. Badly, I must admit. I am writing my second fantasy novel set in that world. I'm still trying to find a publisher for the first, though.

My tastes in music are fairly broad, I like to listen to what's often termed Early Music, and Cappella Pratensis from Tilburg is one of my favourite ensembles. I am fond of baroque music, too, and of Indian classical music, Chinese classical music, especially Nanguan, and folk music.

Mens sana etcetera, and I fence with the Deventer Schermvereniging.

Dotted around this website you will find my drawings. I started with rendering in pen and ink, way back in the time the only way to reproduce drawings was with photocopiers. Nowadays there are scanners and so on, and I have begun to prefer working with pencil, and recently oils.

I've also engaged in sculpture, making small bronze sculptures using the lost-wax method, but I've been without an atelier for far too long.

I used to be very fond of fantasy authors like Clark Ashton Smith or Lord Dunsany. I still read some fantasy, notably Caroline Stevermer, but nowadays I most often prefer to curl up with Wodehouse or Dorothy L. Sayers. Or, reading Dutch, with Werumeus Buning or the poetry of Lloyd Haft. I've started keeping a booklog in 2002 where you can find notes and capsule reviews for what I've read since then.

I belong to the Russian Orthodox Church in Western Europe, and I am the treasurer of the Foundation for an Orthodox Church in Deventer. Our parish was evicted from its church a few years ago by the municipal council. We've succeeded in buying a C16 warehouse, and have converted that into a church, which has been consecrated in 2002.

I've been using Linux as my main operating system for over a decade, and nowadays the only place I see Windows running is on my collegues computers at my workplace.

I've never been much of a C or C++ programmer, but I'm learning: I have taken on the maintainership of Krita, the KOffice paint app. My favourite computer language is Python, which couples clarity with brevity and power. Java is what I earn my bread with.

© 1999 - 2004 Boudewijn Rempt 		 

Curriculum Vitae

 
 

Boudewijn Rempt

Personal information

Name: Boudewijn Simon Anthonie Rempt

Date of birth: September 24th, 1969

Married to Irina Rempt-Drijfhout, three daughters, Naomi (1994), Rebecca (1995) and Menna (1995)

Current appointment: Senior Developer at Tryllian Solutions, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Education

1994
Finished training as Oracle software engineer
1993
Received MA in Comparative Linguistics at Leyden University, specialisation in Sino-Tibetan languages. Judicium: met veel genoegen

Papers:

  • The Verbal Agreement Systems of four Kham Languages
  • Bantawa and the proto-Kiranti Verb
1990
Received BA in Sinology at Leyden University.
1988
Graduated from Mgr. Frencken College in Oosterhout (Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs, equivalent to college)

Professional experience

2000 - present
  • Senior Java developer with Tryllian, developing a mobile agent system in Java -- especially the persistent back-end, mobility, security and execution management.
  • Development of a class browser for Python and KDE, a Python special purpose web server and an object-model for database access.
  • Maintainer of Krita , the KOffice image editor application in C++ for the KDE project.
  • Release manager of KOffice for the 1.5 release series. Hosted a number of hackathons and meetings for Krita and KOffice development.
    • 1998 - 2000
  • Visual Basic and Oracle Developer at Tauw b.v., developing a large laboratory erp system, building the database and gui libraries, developing the office automation applications, tuning the database access libraries and controlling the development standards.
  • Translation of Client/Server programmeren met Java en CORBA
    • 1995 - 1997
  • Oracle Developer with K+V van Alphen, Woerden. Development of taxation software for local government in SQL*Forms 3.0, Forms 4.5, Visual Basic and PL/SQL.

  • Participation in several steering committees in the fields of Gui design, internationalisation and technical infrastructure.
    • 1996
  • Presented the paper "The Verbal Agreement System of Four Kham languages" at the Sino-Tibetan Conference in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
    • 1994
  • Editing the Dutch translation of the WordPerfect 6.0 for Unix helpfiles for ILE Corporation, Boulder.

  • Development of the Dante uucp Usenet mail and news client in Visual Basic.

  • Translation of Unauthorized Windows 95, Finding it on the Internet, The BBS Construction Kit, The Virtual Reality Construction Kit, Working with Lotus Notes and The Quark XPress Bible for Personal Publishing, Amsterdam.
    • 1993
  • Development of E-Port Exact conversion application for Frans Wolfkamp

  • Development of several non-western TrueType fonts in CorelDraw.

  • Participation in the beta-test program of the Accent wordprocessor with Software International in Jeruzalem.
    • 1992
  • Preparation and writing of the syllabus Introduction to the Sino-Tibetan languages.
  • Editor of the Yearbook 1992 of the Dutch Society for Linguafiction

    • Publications

    to appear

    2003

    • Book notice of "Lexical anaphors and pronouns in selected South Asian languages" in Language, Vol. 79. No. 3.
    • Distributed Computing with Agents, with David Mertz.

    2002

    2001

    2000

    1999

    1996

    1992

    • The Art of Framing Lies: Aristoteles over rollenspel avonturen, Magister 42, 5-8.
    • De Syntaxis van het Denden in: Drijfhout, Irina, 1992, Jaarschrift van het NGL, Haarlem, 21-60.
    • W.J.A. Manders, Vijf Kunsttalen. Book review in: Drijfhout, Irina, 1992, Jaarschrift van het NGL, Haarlem, 93-95.