About Me
My name is Hayden Stainsby.
I'm a 26 year old living in Barcelona.
I study computers, etc..
I am studying a Masters in Ciència i Enginyeria Computacional at the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, although generally just the UAB to everyone there. I'm in the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems department. It's got a Catalan name as well, but we use the English one because the acronym spells CAOS.
My research involves agent-based simulations, there'll be more on that when I actually write something on it. You can read a bit about it in the Research section.
I'm also studying a masters in Multimedia Design at the Gimbernat. Yes, two masters at once, what was I thinking?
I work for a comic book store.
Actually I work for Titan Entertainment Group, one part of which is Forbidden Planet a comic and pop culture store in the UK, but it sounds cooler this way. The other two parts are Titan Books and Titan Magazines. Can you see the pattern yet?
I write software.
Most of what I've written is either in-house projects for Titan, or it's web sites. If I had a choice I probably wouldn't stray very far from Objective-C and the Cocoa framework used for written Mac software. Unfortunately it's not usually up to me.
To date, my biggest success has been a series of iPhone comic apps I wrote for Titan Magazines. I wrote a base app which could be easy adjusted to compile with different content. The first issue of Wallace & Gromit (The W Files) did very well, sitting at #1 in the free app listing of the books category for well over a month in the UK, and making it as high as #3 in the free app listing for the whole app store.
Other, just as complete if not nearly as successful projects I've completed are Don't Rush and it's sister site in the United Kingdom UK Audtitions. A web site for orchestras and ensembles to post auditions for musicians to find.
I have an email address.
If you have any desire to contact me; hds@caffeineconcepts.com
