Welcome aboard! I'm Andrea Corriga, a Ph.D. and a Software Engineer based in Sardinia, Italy. You can find me on social networks and in games under the username AsoStrife.
I'm 32 years old and I have several passions: sports, music, video games and programming. I train regularly in my personal home gym, I swim, and I have been playing electric guitar since I was eleven, very sporadically, and, to be honest, I still struggle with it. It's a noisy hobby I enjoy despite the lack of talent. I discovered programming at eight while trying to build my first website. My very first project was a simple Pokémon fan site made with FrontPage 2003: a single image tiled as the background and the message (in Italian) “Benvenuti sul più grande sito di Pokémon del mondo!!”, or “Welcome to the world's largest Pokémon site!!”. My plans to publish it were halted by FTP credentials, which I didn't understand at the time.
My favorite video game is Final Fantasy VII, and I have a long-standing passion for the entire Final Fantasy series. At sixteen I launched FFStory (Final Fantasy Story), a site collecting guides, walkthroughs and discussions about Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Despite my early inexperience, it grew to over 10k unique monthly visitors, hosted a forum with around 300 active users, ran live chats with dozens of participants and gathered more than 16k likes on Facebook.
In 2009, at sixteen, I put my first real website online. It became a guide for Final Fantasy fans worldwide, and my first lesson in building software for real people.
FFStory takes shape through FrontPage, HTML, CSS and the first PHP includes.
Community
A site becomes a shared place
Facebook, the forum and the chat board bring fans together around the series.
2013
The project closes
University takes priority and FFStory enters a long pause after years of revisions and returns.
Today
An archive worth keeping
The site is online again as a record of where my personal and professional journey began.
A note on the original guides
At the time I authored the Final Fantasy VII guides and borrowed content from the 1997 official guide. Because of my age and limited experience back then, I did not always verify the sources of contributions made by others; as a result, some content may have been copied from sources I still cannot identify.
Final Fantasy Story, my first big project since 2009
Web
Community
Guides
FFStory (Final Fantasy Story) started in 2009 as a passion project dedicated to the Final Fantasy series and grew into a detailed online guide for fans worldwide: walkthroughs, guides and discussions about Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. At its peak it welcomed over 10k unique monthly visitors, hosted a forum with around 300 active users and dozens of live chat participants, and gathered more than 16k likes on Facebook. The site is still online as a personal archive, a reminder of a project I built at sixteen. It is no longer actively maintained or updated.
Rawe Ceek
A fast, distraction-free Formula 1 companion app
Android
Mobile
Formula 1
Rawe Ceek is an unofficial Formula 1 companion app designed to be fast, lightweight and distraction-free. It provides the essential race information: upcoming Grand Prix countdowns, full weekend schedules, session results, and updated driver and constructor standings. Built with a minimalist, ad-free approach, Rawe Ceek focuses on clear and efficient access to Formula 1 data without unnecessary features.
Gallery
Away from the keyboard.
I am not someone who takes many photos, so choosing what to include here was a challenge. Rather than another wall of text, I picked a handful of pictures that briefly capture my cats, my interests and my occasionally unphotogenic face.
Have a look at my skills, browse the projects I keep alive, or simply say hello. I'm always happy to talk about code, cloud architecture or Final Fantasy.
