Experienced Software Engineer with extensive practice in computer science and technology engineering, believes that programming is a concept and languages are the tools. ©

Moving large batches of data to an fro. In the meantime I`m: calculating and verifying checksums transcoding wav to flac, tiff to j2k, wp to odf and any other filetypes I don`t like to filetypes that offend me less throwing away those nasty little files that threaten checksum integrity (looking at you, Desktop.ini and .DS_store) extracting archive files normalizing filenames (how the heck did you get a colon into that filename on an NTFS-disk?) shortening paths (why on earth is max length of windows paths 260 chars? On the other hand, why does anyone need 15+ nested folders with horrifyingly long names?) analyzing file formats (actually, I have a DROID for that) scrubbing disks (more soap, mr. Caviar Red?) ©