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Copyright © 2004-2012, Igor Maznitsa

About me

      I was born in Leningrad city (the USSR) in 1975. My first home computer platform was the BK-0010-01 (it is one of Russian PDP-11 clones) and the next platform was the ZX-Spectrum. In 1996 I bought my first PC AT 486 and began to learn programming for that platform. As I left the military service in 1997 I began career as a programming engineer in a small company called “Information Technologies and Models” where I worked for two years. Then I worked as a subcontractor and an employee for different well-known trademarks (for instance OTIS, Samsung, Siemens, F-Secure) and took a part in big number of software projects for very different areas.

      My first commercial programming language was Delphi but since 1999 my both the favorite computer language and the platform is Java and mainly I develop all my projects in the language, so that I can be titled as a Java programmer. Also I have very strong interest in programming with Prolog and Erlang. I have skills in development of commercial projects even in such rare language as FORTH.

      I am sure that today programming engineers are the successors of the medieval alchemists and they have even the same objectives:

• to find the philosopher's stone (financial software can be titled so)
• to make a homunculus (it's the AI area)
  

      I like the second one very much.

     If you have questions or offers to me, do not hesitate to email me, my email is igor.maznitsa[at]igormaznitsa.com ,also you can find me in social networks through below links:

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      Just click a project banner to visit the home page of the project.

In some my projects I was made to develop notifications for inappropriate time delay of some code blocks, thus I developed the JScreed, it is a small lightweight Java framework without any magic under the hood. It just allows to log too long time for code block execution. It works with popular log frameworks.

I decided to try Java development chain to make programs for the Z80 (it's an old 8 bit CPU) and it turned out brilliant. The Maven plugin allows to translate a Java class into Z80 machine instructions (of course with some restrictions). It's also an open source project.

It is my concept project of the first world multi-CPU clone of the well-known platform ZX-Spectrum. The idea struck me in 1994 but unfortunately the time of the platform had gone and now it is just a concept platform. I have developed the emulator of the platform to check its principles.

The tool developed by me in 2002 to help me in my mobile developments. I think it is one of the first preprocessors for Java and may be it is the most powerful one. Long time it was a closed project but now it is an open source project. It supports both ANT and MAVEN, also can be called as a regular Java library.

I had some free time and tried to develop a small JVM implementation which could be executed in J2ME and would allow me to make some simulation of Java class loaders on mobile devices.

Since the middle of 80-th I heard about Prolog and even bought a book about it in 1990 but I didn't have enough time to read it so that I found enough time to read the book only in 2009 and I was amazed by the language. I decided to write a Prolog engine which can be used from Java and the Prol project was born.

I reworked my prolog parser and have published it as an open source project. It allows to parse prolog source code written in Edinburg style, also it supports the operator mechanism.

Copyright © 2004-2012, Igor Maznitsa

I have placed below several links to pages contain screenshots from old projects developed by me or where I took a part, WARNING!!! A LOT OF TRAFFIC!!!

• My first mobile client-server game "Battleships" shown on E3 2001
• Different very old developments where I had some UI
• Mobile games developed in 2002-2003
• Mobile games developed in 2003-2006
• Some developments in the interactive TV area

I have placed here old or very old utilities which were developed by me casually. Some of them may be very useful and today.

• Wrapper for rater images to place them into SVG.Very small utility makes wrapper around a raster image to represent it in the SVG format. It was developed by me when I was developing software for Nokia mobile phones and I had real need to make icons for applications and didn't have enough time to dig very strange Symbian OS development process.
• FORTH based script engine. My experimental old development of a FORTH-like language, it was developed by me because I needed to have some script language which could be executed on mobile devices under J2ME and would allow remote loading from a server. As you know, J2ME didn't support class loaders.
• NTSC TV screen emulator. Because I developed software for TV-boxes I needed some software to check color artifacts issues in graphic elements and I developed the NTSC-viewer in Java. It allows to emulate NTSC-TV-screen and see color issues in images.
• PNG-256 generator (J2ME). It is very very old development. It was my experiment to use run-time PNG palette-based generation on fly to save some memory on old J2ME phones because their possibilities were very very limited. The Java code allows to generate 256 color palette based PNG image.
• Mobile Project Builder. During the "mobile" part of my career I was made to process dozens of projects at the same time and at the beginning I was using the standard WTK from the Sun J2ME Suit but it was absolutely terrible thing for huge number projects processing thus I developed own version which allowed to make preprocessing and packet compilation of my projects.
• PNG optimizing packer. The Achilles' heel for the first mobile J2ME devices was very limited size of their memory but I needed a lot of graphics in my developments, thus I developed small utility which packs PNG images a bit better and allows to correct some color issues for the first Samsung and LG phones.

Copyright © 2004-2012, Igor Maznitsa