'ogre.com' is my (Leif's) playground, for various web sites, projects and just somewhere to try new stuff. As you can see, the content various wildly between my own amusements, to technical tidbits of information I find useful. I try to write stuff down in the blog as I encounter something new / tricky, most for myself so that I know what the hell I did to solve a particular problem.

About me

I'm a long time software engineer, with experiences from the early days of the Internet up until the latest crazes. I've worked for

* Infoseek - one of the first engineers, working on our proxy server, security, and various systems related project
* Netscape - Principal engineer, working on many different projects, including LDAP and Mozilla.
* Yahoo - Principal engineer, one of the first members of the in-house Tiger, creator of various anti-spam systems, and architect for Yahoo's Edge Services.

I enjoy designing new and complex systems, and I'm sort of a jack of all trades. I try to be as pragmatic as possible when it comes to software development, simply use the best/right tools for the task. As such, I have to admit to even writing Perl programs, even though my personal preference of language is Python and C/C++.

About Ogre

Besides hosting my web site, Ogre is also a contracting company, and me and my wife Michelle have helped several small companies and organizations get on the "web" with interesting and usable sites. We also specialize in any network related programming projects, with many years of expertise in network programming.