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I've fiddled with programming for quite awhile. Ahh - the days spent in
front of the C64 learning basic. Since then I've learned a number of other
languages and done some interesting code. As to what I code on - if it is for a server or mission critical then it has to go on Unix (FreeBSD for most things, Sun Solaris for Java. JavaI won't admit to knowing how to code in Java. I will admit to knowing how to hack things into doing what I want it to do in Java - big difference. It gives me something to play with and continue to learn. My only real complaint about FreeBSD - it takes forever to compile Java on it.LPCHobby wise, I enjoy coding on Dead Of Night, making the game more enjoyable for our player base. D.O.N. is an LPC based mud, which basically is a custom variant of C built for a multi-user text environment.Some of my more interesting projects there include the web-to-MUD trivia game, and of course my randomly demented message creator PerlWhere would the 'net be without Perl? It truly is the glue that holds everything together. It makes everything from system administration to this webpage all the more easier and better. I've done way too many projects with perl, it's used daily.Visual BasicI will admit to knowing Visual Basic. My first real learning experience was to code a simple little game. I uploaded it to download.com and it's still floating around on the 'net. Ziff David Hotfiles gave it a 4 star rating, out of 5. Kinda shocking. I have always liked word games, and I enjoyed the simple nature of the game. I should redo it someday, give it a little flair since that was early 90s.I've used VB since then to create simple utility programs (Fear doing something so simple as a ping in VB). I do have to admit, it's come in handy to do funky calculations in Excel spreadsheets. Scarily enough, my code has been used by thousands of LocalLink customers in the signup/setup CD. PHPIt's like perl on speed (For the web that is). Easy to use scripting, makes life easy.After being fed up with limitations of billing software for ISPs, we wrote our own. Successfully co-developed a community website with over 90K users. But this isn't the right place to promote this other website.... MySQLRight, not a programming language. But the best thing to do databases with and have to use this for dynamic content. Currently have a project with 19 million rows and growing, and MySQL just keeps on going without breaking a sweat.XULMozilla's programming language, to turn the mozilla browser into a programming platform. It's powerful, it's cool, but I just wish it had a real IDE to make life easier. I've done a few projects and have been impressed with what you can do. |
| I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal god is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. -- Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner Jr., Sept. 28, 1949 |