Sven's Personal Website
Sven RaddeHepberg, Germany
webmaster@sven-radde.de
Abstract
In this article, we present the personal website of Sven Radde. Online since 2002, sven-radde.de continuously presents its visitors with relevant news and a consistent way of contacting Sven, while serving as a testbed for all the new web technologies that the author is interested in. This article is self-describing in that it itself represents the latest version of sven-radde.de.Keywords
personal website, Sven Radde, web technologies, publicationsIntroduction
This article represents the latest instantiation of sven-radde.de. We argue that its creation provides three significant benefits: It is useful by providing a contact form, a short CV and a centralized list of Sven's academic publications, it serves as a demonstrator for current web technologies by using a mobile-first design that relies on HTML5 and advanced Javascript techniques, and, last but not least, it was great fun to build.
The rest of this article is organized as follows: We present our newest results in section 2, before providing multiple ways to contact the author in section 3. Section 4 gives a short version of the author's CV, while section 5 discusses related work along with the author's academic publications. Finally, we conclude with a short summary and outlook in section 6.
Recent Results
In this section, we present a chronological listing of significant news, e.g., changes in the author's contact details, and other facts that we find fun, relevant to our interests, or otherwise noteworthy.
- New challenge () Sven is now employed at AUDI in Ingolstadt. Please note the updated CV in section 4.
- PGP key refreshed () Please download the refreshed key or reload from your preferred keyserver. We have also reworked section 3.2 to cover the details of the change.
- Vires in numeris () Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day - I should go to Claudio's in the evening but doubt that he would accept BTC...
- Facebook+LinkedIn () Anticipating a longer stay abroad, we extended section 3.3 to include even more social networks - feel free to get in touch. There is also a weblog, but you will have to ask about the URL ;-)
- May the force serve you well () Happy Star Wars Day - and prepare yourself for Towel Day!
- A life is like a garden. () Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. Rest in Peace, Mr. Nimoy.
- Maximum security () In addition to providing a 'proper' SSL certificate for quite some time, www.sven-radde.de now uses 'strict transport security' and actively redirects unencrypted requests to HTTPS, thus avoiding insecure connections as far as possible.
- For the record () The author wishes to put on record that we welcome our new Imperial overlords.
- RSS-based automated updates () All our recent results are also published in the form of an RSS newsfeed at www.sven-radde.de/feed.rss from now on. Feel free to query this feed with the newsreader of your choice have yourself informed automatically about the exciting news on sven-radde.de
- PGP key and social media () In the hope of providing both more secure and more convenient ways to contact the author, we have expanded section 3 to provide our PGP keys and also to give some links to profiles that we maintain on various social networks.
- Fully operational () Finally, the former main website of sven-radde.de redirects to www.sven-radde.de, marking the transition to our new website as complete. In addition, we have installed an SSL certificate to allow users to access www.sven-radde.de via HTTPS.
- Related Work () Following reviewers' comments, we chose to replace our previous listing of publications by a proper discussion of related work. We plan to expand this section over time when we encounter new relevant works.
- Sa tida! () The author's doctoral thesis is officially published and all formalities have been fulfilled. Effective today, the author has acquired his doctoral degree. To celebrate the occasion, we have created the special subdomain dr.sven-radde.de. Feel free to update your bookmarks. ;-)
- Camera ready () After some minor revisions, the new website was published to www.sven-radde.de. We would like to note that it is hosted on our Sheevaplug home server.
- Submitted for review () The first release of the new version of sven-radde.de was deployed on a publicly acccessible web server.
The contents of this section will be expanded as part of our ongoing work. Furthermore, they are available as an RSS newsfeed for your convenience.
Contact
Electronic mail
In spite of the increasing prevalence of alternative communications channels, direct email messaging is still our preferred means of communication, due to its universality and flexibility. In case you do not know an email address that can be used to reach the author, the form detailed in Fig. 1 is provided for your convenience. Note that all fields are required.
You are accessing this website over a secure connection which will hopefully frustrate any would-be eavesdroppers. In particular, all information that you submit via the above form is sent encrypted to the author's mailbox which Sven will also access over encrypted connections only. For additional security, PGP end-to-end encryption keys are provided, as we will describe in the following subsection.
Encrypted email
In order to improve the security of our communications against eavesdroppers, we encourage our correspondents to encrypt all messages to the author using the PGP/GnuPG keys provided in Fig. 2 below. If the receivers have indicated an interested in secure communication or if we find it otherwise appropriate, we will also routinely sign+encrypt emails that we send out, generally irrespective of their content.
The author's main key (0x944890C4
) should be used as the primary encryption target when communicating with Sven.
Note that this is key is now also used on Sven's mobile device, as it is stored on an NFC-enabled security token. To this end, new subkeys are been deployed since July'16, so please refresh your keyring. The older, dedicated mobile key (0xA45F477B
) has been obsoleted/revoked.
In addition, we use a dedicated key for our FSFE account (0x80F8AD6C
) whose primary key is kept 'offline' with the day-to-day subkeys being stored on the author's fellowship smartcard.
Description | Key ID | Length | Fingerprint | Download |
---|---|---|---|---|
main/desktop key | 0x944890C4 | 3072D | B65E 8051 BF46 B751 1F46 5C78 ABEF C341 9448 90C4 | sven.asc |
mobile key (obsolete) | 0xA45F477B | 2048R | 89C4 A177 6A06 4BDD 221B F79F 660D 5BA6 A45F 477B | |
FSFE fellowship key | 0x80F8AD6C | 3072R | CC07 1840 57F2 A68A 692D 4912 956B 5AEA 80F8 AD6C | sven-fsfe.asc |
We are generally happy to verify the above-mentioned fingerprints in personal meetings and to engage in keysigning activities. You should not solely rely on the information in Fig. 2 to establish the authenticity of the author's key, even despite your connection to sven-radde.de is encrypted using SSL.
Social media
In addition to sven-radde.de, we maintain social networking profiles on
XING and
LinkedIn
that you can use to get in touch with the author professionally and personally.
Alternatively, feel free to connect using or
Facebook or
-if need be- the author's virtually inactive
Google+
account.
You may also be interested in Sven's profile pages with the FSFE and the Scrum Alliance.
Sven can also be contacted by using the
Threema-ID
9H99ZMCX
or the
Telegram user sven_radde
.
Request a mobile phone number to connect through Signal and even WhatsApp.
Curriculum Vitae
For the sake of legibility, this section gives only a brief résumé of the author's work and education experience. A complete CV can be provided on request.
2016–present | IT Project Manager. AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, Germany. |
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2012–2016 | Senior Project and Software Engineer. MIRS Consulting GmbH, Burghausen, Germany. |
2006–2012 | Research Assistant. Institute for Information Systems and Software Technology, University of Passau, Germany. |
2001–2006 | Student (Diploma). Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Germany. |
2000–2001 | Military Service. Gebirgspionierbataillon 8, Brannenburg, Germany. |
1991–2000 | Student (Secondary School). Finsterwalder Gymnasium, Rosenheim, Germany. |
Conclusion
In this article, we have presented the personal website of Sven Radde. Apart from providing some news, we focused on presenting a contact form and showed a CV and the author's publications. The entire process of creating this website supports our initial claim that is possible to combine at least the following three benefits when building websites: create content that is at least modestly useful to the general public, experiment with modern web engineering technologies, and have fun along the way.
Our future work will focus on elaborating on the findings of this article, expanding it as we do so. In particular, amongst other things, we plan to enhance the security of the contact form by incorporating Javascript/OpenPGP-based end-to-end encryption techniques, provide convenient BibTeX-files for our publications, and to provide our news in alternative representations, such as RSS.
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