Nice to meet you all, great topic! As the username suggests, my name is Andy. I'm a 28 year old web developer from Idaho, USA.
I started programming C at 9 when my dad brought home a macintosh from work (for work

) and I convinced him to bring home the compiler I'd heard about called ThinkC. At 11 my grandparents purchased my first real IDE (Codewarrior, which I still love and miss!). I developed C working on MUDs and other client-server type apps until at around 14 I found VisualBasic for the Mac (RealBasic). I started developing utilities for video games on the playstation one, as well as tools to help with my now budding hobby of web design. Spent a bit of time learning Perl (which wasn't much a stretch from C) and Java so I could have some "cool" features on my personal website (of which I'm pretty sure I was the only visitor). Somewhere between 16 and 17 I turned my hobby of rock climbing into a job and worked at a local gym for a couple of years as an instructor. Probably the best job I've ever had, but the pay was non-existent
I moved on to working in the newspaper industry when I got hired working nights in the mailroom of the local paper for a small raise (the gym wouldn't give me one, and I wanted to move out on my own, needed any cash i could get). The night IT guy had heard about a job opening in the Internet Services department there and suggested I apply. I ended up calling about 2 hours after the other guy handed in his notice, sweet! Got a job learning Tango (a very strange web application server & language), and using my graphic design / html skillset. I was able to move the setup over to ASP (which was great at the time, or so I had thought) with a SQL2000 back-end.
I got headhunted by a local firm and developed C#.NET for the Navy for about a year until the project's money was sucked up.
Now I'm working at a local small business programming PHP/mySQL and couldn't be happier. Trying to get back into rock climbing and exercising as the years of programming and beer drinking has caught up with me!
Sorry for the novel, but that's me in a nutshell!
-Andy