In the beginning, there was a television. To the television
was attached a Tandy TRS-80 CoCo. Then he said, let there be code. And there
was code, and it was in BASIC. He was a child and found the fact that he could
make a computer do things to be really cool.
As a teenager, the internet was laid open to him. HTML was
discovered and there were many horrible mistakes made, including the dreaded
animated gifs of flaming skulls and spinning things. The land was known as
GeoCities, and it was eventually cast into perdition for its sins.
Then was Java made known unto him, and, though he tried, he
found it confusing. This was the first age of Java, so he was not alone in
this.
Lo then did he graduate high school and make his way to
college in an effort to learn to do this shit properly.
There did he learn of many things – Pascal and Prolog, C and
C++, Scheme and Assembly, Socket programming, the creation of data packets, and
stack traces among many other skills and pieces of arcane lore.
He paid the campus ferryman with his toils as a sysadmin
where he applied logic to a place of chaos known as a non-profit. All the
while, using his position as an excuse to do things programmatically so as not
to have to run around the hilltop known as The Ridges as often.
Then did he return to Java, and he found it…okay. After all,
with a background in object oriented programming, data structures, and the
like, Java now made much more sense.
Upon his path, however, he decided that Java was not the
right tool for him, so he endeavored to learn C#. Additionally, in order to
wipe away, or at least atone for, his past sins of using Perl, he also learned
Ruby to an extent that would allow himself to get into (and hopefully out of)
trouble on occasion.
He walked the paths of desktop development and eventually
began to work in order to master the arts of web development as well using the
MVC framework. So, then, did his past of using HTML and CSS come back to him
(though, thankfully, the flaming skulls and spinning things did not), and that
is where he stands as of this day.
Current Mood - Tired
Current Music - Shades Apart - Stranger By The Day
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