I starting 30 years ago in COBOL as a mainframe programmer. When I first saw hobby microprocessor's Z80A for the home hobbiest, I... [show more]

I starting 30 years ago in COBOL as a mainframe programmer. When I first saw hobby microprocessor's Z80A for the home hobbiest, I wanted in so bad I could taste it. I just couldn't afford to. Then the Apple II and Atari 800 came out, then the IBM PC made it's debut. I learned basic and some 6800 assembler (?) and from there went to Pascal and Forth, and Logo.
Then my paying job went more toward the system programming/administration area so I wasn't doing coding much. Then Al Gore invented the internet :) and I was offered a chance to work on a corporate intranet using Lotus Notes/Domino, so I returned to programming and had a blast. I tried to learn Java, but I was totally frustrated by how slow everything executed, so I drifted away.
The experience with web development forced me to learn HTML, JavaScript, CSS,.... I got good practice by buiding my own website based upon PHP running on Linux which I hosted from my home. Another set back, a new opportunity to learn something called Business Rule Management by Pega Systems (PRPC) building applications using mixed web technologies, JSP, web services, Java, and the items mentioned above.
I'm still struggling a little with object orientation, since most of my background has been in procedural based language. structures, but I'm still loving it [show less]

I am a scientist. I mostly use satellite data to learn things about our world (environment). Right now the application is forest f... [show more]

I am a scientist. I mostly use satellite data to learn things about our world (environment). Right now the application is forest fire and atmospheric science.

I programmed for fun as a kid in Basic, pascal, and C. As a student I did image processing in IDL and Matlab. Oh and AML, I'm almost ashamed to admit. Necessary though at times in my world. Now I have enough breadth that I use whatever fits the job. Usually the path of least resistence is Java or scripting.

I have no formal training in comp sci or programming, but I occassionally go through obsessive bursts trying to learn better practices. [show less]

Greets all. I'm most comfortable with C++, occasional reluctant use of C. "Some assembly required." Tried briefly and dislike J... [show more]

Greets all. I'm most comfortable with C++, occasional reluctant use of C. "Some assembly required." Tried briefly and dislike Java, C#. I develop with GNU autotools, makefiles and vi. Scripting: sh, sed/awk. Other tools on the belt: lex, yacc/bison. Applications of interest: scientific computing, compilers, electronic design automation. More about me at: http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/opensource.html [show less]

First code I wrote was for a MUD (http://www.leviathan.com) in 1994. No formal training, learned little by little, became the 'web... [show more]

First code I wrote was for a MUD (http://www.leviathan.com) in 1994. No formal training, learned little by little, became the 'webmaster' at a regional ISP. Intermediate PHP, Perl, HTML pretty much clueless on the rest.

Part of the Grupthink dev team too. I'm the RSS and deployment guy, and you can blame me any time you see a backslash preceding a quote.

Photo is from 1986 ;) [show less]

8 Years Employed Programming Experience. I use C# primarily. some others I can program in fluently: VB.NET, Java, Eiffel, C, C++, ... [show more]

8 Years Employed Programming Experience. I use C# primarily. some others I can program in fluently: VB.NET, Java, Eiffel, C, C++, VB6, VB5.

For web application development I use ASP.NET primarily, in conjunction with the primary DHTML technologies.

For databases, I primarly use SQL Server 2000 & 2005 & Express, but I also use Access, and mySQL when it fits the solution. So I also have plenty of experince in Database Design, SQL, T-SQL.

I primarily design software information systems from top to bottom (Using the general term, not the software design term), but I have made a number of utilities also. [show less]

Well, in school I did some pascal, basic, C and a few others. Did MSVC++ as my first paid job out of school. Then went to perl and... [show more]

Well, in school I did some pascal, basic, C and a few others. Did MSVC++ as my first paid job out of school. Then went to perl and the web. Then to the JSP world, then PHP, XML, Java, JS, blah blah blah. You know the story. I still do a bit of all of it, well, I haven't touched Perl in a while. [show less]

I'm more of a scripter than a programmer, really. So, naturally, I am an intermediate in PHP, Perl, and shell scripting. Involvm... [show more]

I'm more of a scripter than a programmer, really. So, naturally, I am an intermediate in PHP, Perl, and shell scripting. Involvment in web technologies provided me quite the pile of random HTML, CSS, JS and ActionScript know-how.

I've done some work in C, C++, Pascal, Ruby on Rails, Python, VB, FoxPro and a whole bunch of other languages that I don't care to remember.

Concerning databases, I'm pretty well versed with MySQL, DB2, and Oracle. I'm just now learning PostGreSQL.

When it comes down to it, I'm too lazy and my attention span is too short for programming. [show less]

I dabble in PHP, Dhtml, CSS, HTML. bacic web stull. Wrote some specialty scripts for linux... mostly kindergarten-level stuff (Gim... [show more]

I dabble in PHP, Dhtml, CSS, HTML. bacic web stull. Wrote some specialty scripts for linux... mostly kindergarten-level stuff (Gimme a terminal window, call it this, tail that log, grep this file therein, etc.). I'm doing more and more with PHP these days due to new projects at work.

like I say, I dabble at code, it's not my full-time job. While I do programming, I don't consider myself a programmer... I have too much respect for the people that really do it.

"Just because I stand in the garage doesn't make me a Ferrari'... [show less]

He hasn't been programming for very long, maybe a year and a half, but is more than interested in the subject. He has coded in C+... [show more]

He hasn't been programming for very long, maybe a year and a half, but is more than interested in the subject. He has coded in C++, Java, PHP, Python, and done Database management and creation work in MySQL, PySQLite (SQL wrapper for Python) and in Access. He is familiar with an object oriented environment, but done not have very much experience in the area. Currently he is most interested in developing skills as a web-site designer, this includes learning CSS, SQL, PHP and HTML to an even higher degree and stumbling into the new world of Ajax, Ruby On Rails, and JavaScript. Although these are his primary focuses, they do not limit his interests in other areas of programming, such as application development.
I would say that Zander specializes in CSS and HTML as this is where his primary interests lie, but he is still very much in a learning stage of his life. He likes to think of himself as a quick learner, and is willing to be taught. Zander is currently using a Windows based PC and has limited to no knowledge of the Mac and Linux platforms. [show less]

I haven't done any programming for real for at least seven years, maybe more. Before that, I was big on scripting languages. Lo... [show more]

I haven't done any programming for real for at least seven years, maybe more. Before that, I was big on scripting languages. Lots of Unix shell scripting, perl and the like. I would like to be able to program well in python, but without a serious project, end up by scratching around the surface.

Such is the price of time, and change in role.

Hey ho, there you go. [show less]

I have seven years experience of writing server side Perl code primarily on Solaris boxen. I have two years experience writing C+... [show more]

I have seven years experience of writing server side Perl code primarily on Solaris boxen. I have two years experience writing C++ but it's been a while and I'm rather rusty.

For web development, Apache with mod_perl is my standard platform of choice. I prefer solving backend server-side type problems as my DHTML/CSS fu is a little, er, weak :-)

My database experience is mainly focused on Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL. My current database of choice is MySQL because of its rather spiffy out-of-the-box replication capabilities. [show less]

Didn't start off in computers... actually started out trying to get a degree in Chemistry before I eventually decided to give that... [show more]

Didn't start off in computers... actually started out trying to get a degree in Chemistry before I eventually decided to give that up. Definitely a good choice to make. :)
Just got my Honours BSc in comp sci, starting my Masters in just over a month with a focus on AI. (Haven't chosen more specifically yet... though I'm fond of NN's, GA's, and GP)
On the side, I've been fiddling around with someone's vbulletin forum... making new scripts, adding extra functionality... it's been good practice work in database and php stuff.
And, of course, I like working on nifty little coding projects just for ha-ha's. Currently working on a miniature Scorched Earth-style game for my cellphone.

Only problem with doing work for my cellphone is that I'd like to know how portable it is, but I can never find anyone willing (or able) to test-run it. [show less]

I'm a freelance computer programmer heavily into the .NET stuff now; ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, C++, but also lots of web tech; XML, XSL... [show more]

I'm a freelance computer programmer heavily into the .NET stuff now; ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, C++, but also lots of web tech; XML, XSL, XHTML, SQL, AJAX etc.

Security is my area of interest currently and have recently written some funky applications to protect distributed web-apps. [show less]

I've been writing vb for sometime now. I am interested in other languages, but time just doesn't allow for me to use them. I thi... [show more]

I've been writing vb for sometime now. I am interested in other languages, but time just doesn't allow for me to use them. I think that the best thing to ever happen to MS languages was .net . . . especially for visual basic the world was opened up for anyone using vb6, a real OOP lang. Right now I wrote and work for http://www.matrixprofessional.net, this has really been a labor of love and hopefully I will get to work on some other project in the near future. [show less]

First experience programming was using switches to pass instructions to a tube based display to do basically fancy calculator danc... [show more]

First experience programming was using switches to pass instructions to a tube based display to do basically fancy calculator dances in highschool, circa 1977-8. Then in '79, got a TRS-80 to do Basic and later Z-80 assembly. After MIT (List, Clu, and C), I programmed in Mesa at a commercial development team that branched out of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and in 1996-7, shifted over to Java and have focussed on that since - doing web targetted visualizations that got started by PARC researchers.

It's great being able to work for a California based company in Big Sky country. Very cool to know that there's a Web 2.0 startup here in MSO. [show less]

I'm a freelance programmer that work with PHP, Python, C++. I'm from Argentina and work for countries around the globe for about 8 years ago.

I'm a .NET developer for a company in Salford Manchester, programming in C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, etc. Studied BSc(Hons) Internet Comp... [show more]

I'm a .NET developer for a company in Salford Manchester, programming in C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, etc. Studied BSc(Hons) Internet Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University, where I coded in C and Java. Have programmed in PHP, Perl and Ruby also. [show less]

I'm a Java developer and a project leader. I'm working on a Web 2.0 project... I know also SQL, Javascript and various XML dialec... [show more]

I'm a Java developer and a project leader. I'm working on a Web 2.0 project...
I know also SQL, Javascript and various XML dialects [show less]