Hi Clannies, I’m
Bence Erős, a 22 years old software developer and university student and study
Software Engineering BSc. I live in
Debrecen, the 2nd biggest city of
Hungary, about 200.000 people live here - it's close to the eastern border of the country. In
Regnum Online my primary character is
crystalx, a lvl 49 warlock, and I also have a lvl 26 barbarian called
hard reset, and a lvl 22 marksman (
nega). I started playing
Regnum Online around the middle of July.
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| Picture 1: hard reset and crystalx |
To be honest, I’m not a gamer. I haven’t played any games in the recent years. Before that - long ago in the middle of my teen ages, I played mainly strategy games:
Age of Empires,
Heroes 3,
Warcraft 3,
Rise of Nations,
Settlers and sometimes
Starcraft. All were boring after sometimes, since I could only play in single player, we didn’t have internet connection at home that time (I just can’t imagine how I survived my first 16 years. :D )
But this summer after my exams I downloaded
RO and I gave it a go. Aaand... I became addicted to it in a few days. So I spent most of my summer with playing
RO;
crystalx is now lvl 49, but sadly I’m a bit bored of grinding that guy, so in the recent days I have mainly played my barb,
hard reset, and I log in with my lock only if there is some invasion.
When I don’t sit near my computer, I live the everyday life of university students. I’m with my beautiful girlfriend who I have gone out with for more than one years now, or I’m with my friends in a tavern or on a rock festival, or I’m watching a movie, whatever. In my teen ages I had read a lot of books too, but sadly I gave that up. I read mainly sci-fi novels, my favourite writers are
Philip K. Dick,
Kurt Vonnegut and
George Orwell. I also liked fantasy novels, eg.
Lord of the Rings and
Harry Potter (one of the reasons why I fell in love with
Regnum is how similar its world is to
LOTR. :) So that’s all about books, nowadays I read IT stuff when I have some time to do that, currently
Refactoring by
Martin Fowler. By the way, I’m not a read-only guy, I started a blog in English last winter, it is
my "just another blog about software engineering" blog. You can find some more or less interesting programming-related articles here.
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| Picture 2: My girlfriend and myself |
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| Picture 3: At a university bale |
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| Picture 4: Factory festival at Miskolc |
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| Picture 5: A more or less cultivated garden party with friends |
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| Picture 6: Cutting the melon - when everybody knows better how to do that :) |
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| Picture 7: Late-night coding fun :) |
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| Picture 8: So.. question? |
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| Picture 9: A long-haired Bence |
During the university years I worked as a software engineer for several companies, but after all I have became fed up with them, so currently I try to get by as a freelancer. When I say "software engineer" I mean "programmer", but the latter one is a damn ugly word in my opinion, therefore I more prefer using the first one :) So, primarily I write smaller business applications, mainly in PHP, JavaScript (with jQuery) and I prefer using PostgreSQL as a database. If I don’t write such applications, I develop my PHP framework, which I will release as public, free software some time in this year (hopefully). When I become fed up with PHP, I sometimes play a bit with Java, Scala or C, but I’m not really professional in those technologies/languages. I’m a really open-source guy, I rarely work with any proprietary stuff. I use mainly Ubuntu Linux with Fluxbox on my desktop, and sometimes I try out Slackware or Slack-based Linux distributions too. As I mentioned above, I’m a university student too, but now I only have a very few subjects, studying is not a really important part of my life. To be honest, I should have finished the BSc 2 years ago - I’m very lazy with math subjects. :)
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| Picture 10: Finally, a screenshot about my nerd desktop |
That's all guys, have fun,
enjoy my pictures, and defend me when I’m under a dizzy cast. ;D
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