| - Self taught, my school's idea of "Computer Studies" was to teach you how to use WordPerfect, and a few other DOS based office apps. - Everything I did before my first coding job was done purely for myself. - 1997 to 2000 if I want to only count "Web development" as my core skill. I've been playing around with code since 1990, trying to mix art with code on Amiga. - First gig was in the adult industry designing and maintaining sites. Brief Timeline for those interested: 1997 - Playing around with Netscape Navigator Gold and GeoCities. Purely HTML based sites with some use of 3rd party CGI tools (Matt's Script Archive... I think). 1999 - Touched on ASP but I didn't like the taste. 2000 - Since everything didn't burn to the ground, I started to develop using Perl and flat-file databases. 2001 - Upgraded to PHP/MySQL. Expanded further into JS/CSS as well. Also started using Rackspace as my main host with a FreeBSD machine. 2003 - Career change to advertising, regretted it every day. The lies and screwing of customers. Was primarily splash pages with some functionality. 2006 - Went back to the Adult side of the tracks. Learned more about server management. Dabbled in C at the same time as I was making modifications to Kannel. 2009 - Left the Adult industry for a more retail position. Switched from FreeBSD to Ubuntu as my primary deploy OS. Expanded into scaling architecture as well as picking up a few extra languages along the way (Obj-C, Python etc). |