Period voice retained; spelling and formatting lightly cleaned.
Originally published 7 September 2010 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.
Preserved as site-history context from the earlier public site. The article keeps its period voice, with light formatting cleanup.
I have added new Software section where I am keeping all the software that I developed so far. All the software is open-source and you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU – General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.