My name is Bill Mill (yup it rhymes). I'm a student at
Ursinus College, headed into my senior year of a computer science degree. I have developed fairly significant programs in C/C++/Java/PHP/Python, and have dabbled in other languages. I'd like to learn some functional programming when I get a chance (Haskell, Scheme, or Lisp, probably). I would like to eventually become a professor of artificial intelligence, specifically in the field of machine learning, I think.
As for PHP, last summer I developed both a front and a back end for the company I was interning with. I found this board, asked a few questions, learned a lot on my own, and eventually found myself answering questions. By the end of the summer, I was pretty much a zen PHP guru, and used a star wars style hand wave to convince twinglet to make me a moderator. Since then, I've not used PHP much except for a few small scripts for my website, so I don't answer as many questions as I used to. However, I still lurk round these parts when I can. While Volka, BDKR, Twinglet and the others are PHP heroes, I am merely a PHP pirate.
Outside of this forum, I play ultimate frisbee competitively (see sig). This summer, my school is paying me to do research on machine learning, so I have a pretty sweet deal. I also like to snowboard, read, write, program, eat, and drink.
Nice to meet you.