A Colophon is: “An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.” #
This is a personal website and my hobby to play around with design and wordpress as my blog system.
about andreas linde
I grew up in the small village (about 500 inhabitants) Leiselheim in the beautiful Kaiserstuhl. After 5 years my family moved about 10km further to small town Endingen. This was pretty big (about 5000 inhabitants) compared to Leiselheim.
I stay 15 years in Endingen. Started playing soccer in the local club until I was 10, then decided that playing table-tennis is much more interesting and played for 18 years. That was such a wonderful time. I visited the primary school in Endingen and finished grammar school 1995 in Kenzingen.
After school I studied in the polytechnic of Furtwangen, the arctic city of the black forrest. First tried my luck with “computer science” but moved over the study “Computer Networking” pretty soon and graduated in 2001. During that time I did one trainee time for mp3.de and wrote my diploma thesis at the Lake of Konstanz for the company InnoTek.
My first job was fascinating: working in an edutainment software company as programmer in a small company in Freiburg. Too bad to company went bankrupt 3 months after I joined. They were already in trouble, but didn’t tell me when recruiting me. Three months later I found a new job which is still my current one. It is so different. I am working for Robert Bosch GmbH, which has hundrets of thousands of employees. And I am one of them. My responsibilty is to work on the information management and intranet services for a few hundrets of software developers. Well, I like it too 
Starting January 2006 my tasks did change and I was be working as a project leader for a new tool development, which should help reaching better quality of the software these hundrets of people did. Actually I liked that project a lot and enjoyed designing and working on it. But in August 2008 it was time for doing something else, so I moved back to my roots and was working as a UI developer and designer for tele-medicine software at Bosch. In 2009 the topics changed there so much, that I decided it is finally time to take over something completely new. So starting June 2009 I won’t work at Bosch any more and instead … oh wait … can’t tell you now. Just wait and see
random things
- I enjoy playing World of Warcraft in my spare time, lately I am rather doing something else
- Until 2003 I played table tennis in my hometown club TTC Endingen for about 18 years
- From 1998 until 2003 I was one of the guys behind the former biggest OS/2 community website OS2.org
- In 2002 I switched from OS/2 to Mac OS X and did never regret it so far! It’s so easy!. I own a iMac 2,4GHz Core 2 Duo, a PowerMac G5 Dual 1,8Ghz, a Powerbook Titanium 867MHz and a Mac Mini 1,5Ghz (all PowerPC), an AppleTV, iPod Shuffle, iPod 40GB, iPod Touch 8GB and iPhone 8GB.
- In 2008 I started developing my own iPhone apps