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Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:21 am
by matthijs
Great idea to ask everybody for some more info.
I am a 34 year old Dutch guy, living in the little town Gouda (famous for it's cheese). Taught myself some HTML and CSS about 5 years ago to make my own website. After that got interested in PHP. started my own webdesign company a couple of years ago. I know more about front-end then back end stuff, but hopefully after spending enough time here and some practice that'll change.
Free time, if available, is spent rock climbing, if the weather and time allows preferably outdoors. Most often climbing areas don't have internet access available so that's a nice opportunity to
not spend time looking at a screen

Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:38 am
by Eran
Pytrin, I hope to be taking advantage of Birthright soon and visiting Israel
let me know, and i'll give you the lowdown on the city

Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:16 am
by VladSun
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9704&p=408177#p408177
Ouch! I've fixed several thousands of English language mistakes in it
BTW, weird: p=408177#p408177 !!!

Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:54 am
by Darhazer
I'm 23 years old and I'm working for almost 5 years in the area of web development.
I'm from Sofia, Bulgaria. Obviously - male.
I've never been abroad but I hope next few years I'll have a chance to see several European countries.
You can check also:
My profile at LinkedIn
My post in Introduce yourself
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:33 am
by onion2k
jackpf wrote:I find people here a lot less arrogant, and the moderators aren't total pricks (Y).
I'm too perfect to be arrogant.
I'm 32, male, living in the UK, and I'm bored out of my mind writing PHP stuff these days. I've been doing it for more than 10 years. If you can think of a feature on a website there's a good chance I've written it before.

So now I'm looking for an interesting university post-graduate course (MSc) to take a year off to study. After that.. who knows!
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:50 am
by jackpf
xD
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:28 am
by alex.barylski
If you can think of a feature on a website there's a good chance I've written it before. So now I'm looking for an interesting university post-graduate course (MSc) to take a year off to study. After that.. who knows
I'm not tired of PHP per se, but coding in general. I'm tired of fixing hacks (both my own and others) and tacking on features as fast as humanly possible. Even with understanding managers who listen to reason, commercial products are always under the gun.
I much prefer working on personal projects where perfection is the impetus, not strictly money, although I wouldn't mind making a living off my own product line someday soon.

Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:25 pm
by califdon
@onion2k and @PCSpectra, have you considered retirement? I've been doing that for a long time now, and I highly recommend it.

Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:18 pm
by andyhoneycutt
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
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:36 pm
by pickle
27 years old
Dude
Alberta
Started coding at 8. By grade 8 I was getting kicked out of computing class because I'd finished the project to early & was making too much noise. Started programming PHP in the 2nd semester of my fourth & final university year. Loved it from the get go for the simple fact & didn't have to compile anything to see a result. Got hired back to the same university 3 months after graduation to continue PHP programming. Been doing that ever since.
Free time: sports, mountain biking, dance music, trying to figure out a way to get more women in my industry (or at least office

)
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:48 pm
by Jonah Bron
Jonah Bron Dahlquist. I have "Jonah Bron" as my user name, because Bron is slightly cooler and easier to spell than Dahlquist. I'm 15 now, but I started doing computer stuff when I was 13 (but I was reading about HTML when I was 11). I learned a bunch of XHTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. My uncle told me about Google Earth, and I discovered SketchUp. On the SketchUp forum, somebody mentioned PHP.
So here I am now.
Since then, my dad bought me Flash Pro 8, and it's pretty cool (my website is flash, though I'm thinking of switching to HTML5). Over the past few years, I've been learning PHP, more HTML, Ruby, Ajax, and other stuff, and now have moved into Visual Basic. My next projects? Tackling Assembly Language, and writing my own operating system!
This one, and the SketchUp forum, are the best forums I've ever been to.
I'm genuinely shocked at the starting ages here.
Update:
Forgot... I also am learning the violin. I've made a total of 1 websites for people outside of my immediate family, though working on a second. They're both friends, so I am doing them both free. Plus, I need to build my portfolio.
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:13 pm
by califdon
pickle wrote:... a way to get more women in my industry ...
Why do they have to be in your industry??
I'm impressed by how young some of you got involved with programming. That wouldn't have been possible for me. When I was 8 or 10 years old, there were no computers at all. Not even electronic calculators! I used a slide rule in college. And, yeah, there were abacuses! At least I have the advantage of having been around throughout all of the development of the technology, from the very earliest.
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:20 pm
by Jonah Bron
Yeah, that's pretty cool. I have to work my way backward.
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:32 pm
by Doug G
Topic titles like this one are why the odds are slim that I'll ever reach 100 posts at these forums.
Re: Who are you? (People with over 100 posts)
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:33 pm
by Jonah Bron
You're almost there. 99 posts.