Hello, my name is Igor Maznitsa and I am a computer programmer. My main hobby is the programming and I've been commercially working in the area since 1997 (for fun and to make some money I wrote computer programs in 1989 for BK-0010 and ZX-Spectrum platforms). As every real programmer I develop not only projects for my company but I have my own home projects which I develop for my interest in my free time, a few links to my personal projects you can see above on this page.  If you have interest to know a bit more about me, you can take a look at my CV (the russian version of CV).

Because A.I. is one from my favourite directions in the IT area, I still hope that there will be the time when a revolt of typewriters will be possible..

me and Joshua Bloch on a Jug.ru meeting (2008)

At present mainly I develop in Java (mainly Core Java, low-level Java processing, Swing and network) but as you understand it depends on projects (I work at a small consulting company and its projects depend on needs of its customers), it is no so seldom when I have projects which are being written in different languages at the same time. I've been using actively Java since 1999 (my first Java project was a  HTTP server contains a script language based on FORTH (I called it the "Forth Server Page" technology) for a production automating project and it had been being used during long time by the SPb OTIS factory)....

Useful stuff for mobile developers and others..

• The utiliy IMG2SVG allows to convert a raster image into the SVG compatible representation. It is very useful to make icons for Nokia Series 60 devices. It was written in Java 1.6 (src included).
  
• An example of a runtime full canvas choice between Nokia API and MIDP 2.0 in runtime by the only MIDlet which is being started on different devices.
• A small script language RRGGL (v.1.00) (it is a Forth like stack based language) allows to write device independed scripts which can be downloaded on a device through the network and be played under J2ME devices (the script language was developed in 2004). The distributive includes both the VM sources and the compiler.
• A utility to check image artefacts of an image which is planned to be shown at a NTSC TV screen. Also, the utility can help to correct found color troubles.Version 1.0.2
• A command line utility to generate a 32bit (ARGB)  integer array or a 256 indexed-palette array from a GIF, PNG or JPG file (it can generate arrays which can be used by the Dynamic Engine 8bpp) (it's very easy utility, I know)
  
• The Dynamic PNG image engine. One from my old developments (2003 year). It contains the Java2me class allows to make a dynamic PNG palette (256 color indexed palette) based images, also in full version it supports graphical primitives (I have placed here only a cutted version, sorry).
• The Mobile Projects Builder. This tool looks like to the SUN WTK (you should understand that the utility is not a new one) but it allows preprocessing with my own developed preprocessor and the main feature (I made it mainly for that) - it can to process a lot of project in the same time (it's very useful when you need to compile or recompile 70-80 projects :))
• The PNG Packer utility v.1.06 (with SAMSUNG and LG color palette correction, it's my old utility started at 2002) allows to increase packing level of a PNG image and correct possible troubles in its color values (as an example it corrects colors which can be transparent on a few old SAMSUNG phones).

If you have any questions or offers for me, do not hesitate to contact me through email
Email: igor.maznitsa[at]igormaznitsa.com

• Battleships
• Mobile games 1
• Mobile games 2
• iTV
• Misc old UI developments