Programming

I like to program. I get paid to program. I like to talk about programming.

I started programming in grade 8 with the good old Commodore 64. Those were the best times for progamming.

After those C64 experiences, I went on to university. Eventually I finished a CS degree from TUNS. TUNS is now Daltech. I have all good to say about TUNS and the old TUNS CS program. I consider a TUNS degree prestigious and I am pleased with myself to have one.

After TUNS I joined PRIOR Data Sciences. I liked PRIOR. Like TUNS, I consider it prestigious to have been part of it.

PRIOR was taken over by xwave in Feb 2000. xwave didn't quite get untracked with me and I left there in July 2001 and joined Core Networks. In September 2004 Core was acquired by SupportSoft which is where I work now. If I write anything grouchy about work then to yourself think "he must be talking about Core"

Luckily for me I've never been out of work in high tech. I'm confident that if I was out of work I'd be able to get something comparable to what I currently have. However, I'm not eager to test that theory.

Right, back to programming. I just want to mention the different languages and stuff I've worked with over the years.

1997 - 1998: Ada 83
1999 - 2001: Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports. MS-Access.
2001 - 2004: C, C++, PHP, HTML, Javascript, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL
2004 - 2005: Java, J2EE, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL

Also I've now converted to Python, and I use that for scripting. I still have to work with Java though most of the time.

I expect the list to continue to evolve. I'm not convinced that Java will be the last stop on this line.