About
My name is Zef Hemel and this website is about me and things I care about. Some people call it a weblog and so do I. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s sad, sometimes it’s boring and doesn’t make any sense. Welcome to my world, enjoy your stay.
Very Brief Biography
I was born 22nd of June 1983 in Groningen, a city in the north of the Netherlands. I got my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Groningen in 2005. In September 2005 I moved to Dublin, Ireland to do a M.Sc. course in Networks and Distributed Systems at Trinity College there. Begin September 2006 I moved back to Groningen where I studied English Language and Culture for a year. I got my master’s degree from Trinity College on December 15th 2006. Currently I’m a Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Delft.
My Interests
I started programming when I was 9 years old. I started lots of projects, the most well-known being YaBB. After that I started two more boards, one written in PHP which eventually never got released and then another one called KeyTopic, written in Java/JSP that is now discontinued. During KeyTopic’s developement, programming became a drag, it was not challenging anymore. I need challenges. Since then I have only done some little research projects of my own.
What I enjoy immensely is reading and writing about software engineering and technology. I love writing. I also am interested in linguistics and languages in general (I’m learning Polish at the moment).
And then there’s this other interest, my lovely girlfriend Justyna.
Some Facts
| Full name: | Zef Hemel |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of Birth: | 22nd of June 1983 |
| Occupation: | Ph.D. Student at the Technical University of Delft (MoDSE project) |
| E-Mail: | zef@zefhemel.com |
| MSN: | zefh@hotmail.com |
| Skype: | zefhemel |
| Resume: | Academic CV (update February 2007) (PDF) |
Understanding me
Pictures
I upload my pictures to Flickr
Papers and Books
- 2001: Het ideale encryptie algoritme (“The Ideal Encryption Algorithm”) in Dutch.
Awarded with the 2001 Jan Kommandeurprijs - 2005: Assembling Classes at Runtime (together with Peter Hut)
- 2005: Quality Attributes of Distributed Storage Systems
- 2005: Contributer to IPDI’s Politics to Go Handbook
- 2006: “Middleware for Semantic Service Advertising and Discovery on MANETs”, Technical Report/M.Sc. thesis at Trinity College Dublin.
- Some smaller articles can be found at the articles section of this website.
Music I Like
I like all sorts of music, but this are the artists I’m most fond of:
- Hooverphonic
- Shakira (the Spanish stuff)
- The Corrs (the Irish stuff, like their “Home” album)
- Stereophonics
- Radiohead
