I am a software developer. I primarily write applications for the web in PHP. I have an interest in a variety of technologies including MySQL, nginx (Engine X), HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript/jQuery, Linux, and networking.
I have been programming since the late ’80s. My introduction to programming was in BASIC on my fathers custom built Apple II. From there I moved on to programming in C and 8086 Assembly language. In 1995, I broke out of the DOS/Windows world when I was introduced to Linux. Linux had (and still does) such a better environment for programmers with the tools that are available. I became interested in writing compilers and operating systems and in the late ’90s I wrote my own real-time operating system with it’s own compiler and assembler. The system was text-based only, no graphics, and did not support hard drives, floppy drive only, but it worked nonetheless.
Around the year 2000, I started becoming interested in developing for the web as web applications, rather than just static web pages, were becoming more common. With my background in C, PHP was a logical language choice to learn and I quickly fell in love with the ease of programming in the language. The features of a modern programming language, such as dynamic typing, seemed almost too good to be true.
While I was programming in C, I avoided C++ and believed that object oriented programming (OOP) did nothing but overly complicate code. I held this position until just a few years ago when I started looking at OOP in PHP and finally discovered the advantages of OOP. I believe part of my distaste for OOP came from how poorly it is implemented in C++. With modern programming languages, OOP is much better implemented. Java is a good example of OOP done well. PHP borrows much of it’s OOP implementation from Java.
Photography
I am also a photographer doing mostly real estate and vacation rental properties. Although I do enjoy nature and landscape photography as well. My start in photography came in 2006 when I bought my first digital SLR. In April of 2010 my wife and I started a successful photography business that we maintain on the side shooting photos of cabin rentals.
Other Labels
I am also a liberal, eco-socialist, environmentalist, and agnostic.
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