name: Sean Voisen age: 30 employer: Adobe location: Northern California when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first “real” programming experience was probably in JavaScript. It was 1995, the web was still in its infancy, and my dad came home one day that summer and said he wanted to build a [...]
name: Dan Florio – polyGeek age: 44 – for now. employer: Self employed for the past 4 years. Prior to that I worked for Microsoft XBox. location: Currently Camp Verde, AZ but that will change soon to Ada, Oklahoma or Dallas, Tx. when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first computer [...]
name: Jeff Roberts age: 47 employer: Nimble Noggin Software/Universal Mind location: St. Louis, Missouri when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I was in college my senior year at the University of Missouri way back in 1986 when my father bought me a Commodore 64 and a cassette tape drive (for storage). [...]
name: Stray (Lindsey Fallow is my real name but even my wife calls me Stray) age: 35. Officially old according to my 16-year-old step son. employer: Me location: Yorkshire Dales, UK when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I started with Basic on Commodore 64 and MSX. Making little pixely things, or [...]
name: Brian Connatser age: 37 employer: Litl location: Bristol, TN when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My father was a sonar programmer in the US Navy in the mid 60s, so I was introduced to coding at a very early age. My first remembrance of actual programming was on my C64, [...]
name: Josh McDonald age: 31 location: Brisbane, Australia when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? My first serious Flash scripting project was back in 2000/2001 using Flash 5. It was a bit too ambitious, and we really should’ve gone with Java at the time, because the drawing API didn’t exist yet. Hindsight, right? are you practicing TDD? [...]
name: David Wolever age: 23 employer: Verso Furniture (although the website is horribly, horribly out of date, so I won’t bother linking to it) location: Toronto, Canada when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first “programming” I remember was watching my dad tell DOS to count to 1000. I was impressed [...]
name: Jonathan Campos age: 29 employer: Miller & Associates / Dedo Inc. location: Dallas, Tx when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I wasn’t interested in computers for YEARS, mainly because the only computer I was used to seeing was my dad’s golden rod computer that did nothing but print to it’s [...]
name: Doug Winnie age: 35, going on 25… employer: Adobe Systems location: San Francisco, CA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I started working with Flash and ActionScript back in 1999 when I was still in college and when I started my first web job as a web designer at the University of Delaware. I [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been testing out Airgile to help me plan, track and manage my current Flex development effort. Before I continue please keep in mind this review is coming from someone who hates, no LOATHES project tracking tools/systems. I’ve used quite a few of them and most are a total waste [...]
