Welcome to Michael Vorburger's homepage, v3

My Blog I maintain on this site is the most frequently updated section on this nowadays fairly domain. According to logs, frequently visited articles include the How To set-up two-way (mutual) SSL in Tomcat, an Spring Security/Acegi XFire blurb and my very own HTTP Server in Java.

I'm also "micro-blogging" anything of interest to me on my delicious bookmarks, tweet too much on twitter.com/vorburger, and occassionally share blog posts. If you must, these guys even aggregate it all. I'm AKA this LinkedIn profile.

A few lines about myself would have to include that I currently live in my native country Switzerland, where I studied Computer Science at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). My current job is with Odyssey Financial Technologies. In 2006 I was with a group called IPT, mostly doing J2EE Architecture, Business Rules Management Systems, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Earlier I helped build an enterprise software company called Vertical*i in Lausanne and New York for 5 years, where I quit as CTO in late 2005. Before that, I have worked at Cisco Systems in San Jose, California and at ABACUS Research in my home town of St.Gallen.

I am also... a co-author of the book "Core Java Data Objects" (JDO), have done a little bit of community work teaching children as young as 8 years old to grasp basic programming / logical thinking / story telling using scratch.mit.edu, and tried to do some stuff with OLPC.ch.

During 1998-2000 I had put together the previous version ("v2") of the vorburger.ch site. Particularly popular pages on it were my KISSfp Web Tool, a Web Style Guide I wrote long ago, and my early ALTifier, Face Recognition and Proxy Server projects. BTW: The vorburger.ch domain started with a v1 in 1997.

I hope some of the content on this site may be of interest or useful to you. - Enjoy!
Michael Vorburger