Martijn Koster's Pages

The pronounciation of my name is often a challenge for English speakers. They should just call me Martin Koster, rhyming with "foster".

The "ij" in my first name is a sound unique to Dutch. You can hear it in this sound clip (description). English speakers invariably fail to pronounce this correctly — I much prefer them to just say "Martin".

I am a software engineer working in the United Kingdom. My main field of interest is Internet server software and web application development on UNIX, in Java, Perl, Python, and C/C++ with an emphasis on security, maintainability, performance and inter-operability.

I am currently employed as Software Architect by Danger, working on server-side applications to support the Hiptop mobile device.

Read more on my professional page.

If you wish to contact me, visit my contact page to find my email address and special instructions.

On my www.robotstxt.org web site you can learn about how Web robots operate, how they feed search engines, and what you can do to steer them away from (or to) your pages.

This is the definitive source of information on "/robots.txt".

You may have come across old references to services I developed in the early days of the Web, like ALIWEB, Archieplex, CUSI, etc. If you have an historical interest, you learn more about these these services on the historical web services page.