Where are you from, and where do you live now?

I am born in Skagen Denmark, and after a little bit of moving around this is where I live now with my wife Pavlina..

How long have you been programming?

I have been programming since my early teens some centuries ago, back then it was the basic C-64 language, but later I was introduced to HTML and PHP. I think I haven been using PHP since 2005.

What is your expertise?

"To look like I'm working hard but actually doing nothing" In programming I believe I'm beginning to get the hang on PHP, MySQL and to some degree jQuery. Not quite expert yet though

What got you to XOOPS? 

I was building a website for a locale radio station I got bored from getting 5 emails every week to change names, schedule, picture etc. and decided to find a CMS system that every user in the radio could use instead, so didn't have to do all the work. Later I also decided to do the same in my own website. Irony is that I'm still doing all the changes in the radio website.

What do you like the most about XOOPS?  

XOOPS is easily set-up, it's easily extended and the structure is pretty fast learned. More than this it can be themed so it doesn't look like other websites using XOOPS. Every time I go to a website created in WordPress or Joomla I am never in doubt which system is running it. Plus XOOPS have the coolest users and the best community

Why did you decide to create the SmallWorld module?

I was speaking a few years ago it seems, - to Rune about creating a posting wall where the admin couldn't censor the users posts. Little by little it has become some what more than just a wall module, but I think the general idea is still intact.

What was your most important learning from working on SmallWorld?

A lot of things, I begin to learn the advantages of using classes with modules of a certain size, I learned a lot about AJAX and jQuery and using versioning - most importantly the big, big, big advantage of releasing modules as RC before just going public...there are still some bugs in-there, I know it  

What are the future plans for this module? Any other modules in development?

For this module I would like to have all plugins being run only from the SmallWorld pages, at the moment they runs out of preloads. I tried various things but it looks like the code doesn't like my ideas. I'll find a solution though - I hope. Extending the module later with a plugin system would be nice (games, quizzes, polls) and some blocks could be useful (Geo statistics, users you might know, last update, SmallWorld users online)
I hope also to find time to start or join a radio suite module, update a bit on my Indexscan module (PHP standard scan, broken links). 

If you could add one feature to XOOPS, what would it be?

More inline functionality, most functions at the moment require refresh or pointing to submit pages. It would be more fresh to do all this using for instance AJAX  files.

What is your major achievement in programming that you're most proud of?

That would have to be Smallworld, closely followed by Xim created together with Andrax

What are your hobbies, when you're not coding?

I like to travel, read, watch football (called soccer in USA), and listen to some good radio. All of them are a little put on hold at the moment as I had to take an extra jobs. But later I expect to go for 3 weeks to Bulgaria for vacation.

You favorite dish and drink?

Food I don't prepare anything myself, hehe..   I like Danish roasted pork (flæskesteg) or duck - with brown sauce and sweet potatoes. Beer-wise still a big fan of the Bulgarian beer Zagorka but Ariana is catching up. In regular beverages Coffee is the one I like most.

What about movies and music?

I like documentaries at the moment, History channel's "ancient aliens" is very interesting, but historical movies without too much Hollywood drame are good. Music wise I like all genres from Black metal to Lara Fabian or mainstream pop / dance..

If you would have a chance for a 30 seconds commercial with a message to the world, what would you say?

Having the state of the world in mind, this past week most likely wasn't the worst in history, but still let's try to make the next week better.

If you could choose a place and time to live, what would it be and why?

28th of February 2075. Sitting in a big party with a big grin on my face, drinking a beer while the locale fire brigade prepare to put out the candles on my cake

Who is the person that you would like to meet and why?

My mother. She died some 10 years ago very suddenly. A moment or two more with her would be great.