Archive for the 'Interviews' Category

2011 seantheflexguy Blog Post Highlights and Album Releases

Well, 2011 is officially coming to a close. It was an interesting year, that’s for sure. I rounded up a few blog entries that I posted that I thought were aggregating into a quick post. They cover: presentations, tools, books and more. Some Flex, some HTML5 and some Arduino. Hope everyone has a safe and [...]

Interview with Paul Robertson from Dedo Interactive, Inc.

name: Paul Robertson age: 36 employer: Dedo Interactive, Inc. location: Plano (north Dallas) Texas when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? When I was a kid (9? 10?) my dad brought home a Commodore 64, and I started messing around with simple BASIC programs — just simple scripts and things copied out of books (that usually [...]

Interview with Eric Fickes from Association Technology Solutions

name: Eric Fickes age: 36 employer: Association Technology Solutions ( www.atsol.org ) location: Arvada, CO when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? When I was in grade school I dabbled with drawing programs. Logo on the Apple 2E, and I forget the program I worked with on the TRS-80 Color, but I’ll [...]

Interview with Mykola Bilokonsky from Columbus, OH

name: Mykola Bilokonsky age: 28 employer: Self Employed Independent Consultant location: Columbus, OH when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My earliest memories all have computers in them – my dad and my uncle were both early adopters and into technology from way back. I remember being very young and using a [...]

Interview with Phillip Kerman from Portland, Oregon

name: Phillip Kerman age: 1965 employer: self location: Portland, Oregon when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? When I attended Rochester Institute of Technology I took several courses outside the Photography school. The College of Applied Sciences and Technologies had a small “multi-slide” production department which occupied “energy house” (which was some kind of showcase [...]

Interview with David Arno from England

name: David Arno age: 44 employer: Enigma Data Solutions location: Lewes (Small town near Brighton in England) when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? When I was 13, our school bought a Commodore Pet that sat in a fume cupboard in one of the chemistry labs. Pupils were allowed supervised access to [...]

Interview with Raymond Camden from Adobe

name: Raymond Camden (friends call me Ray, but I use Raymond when I’m trying to sound important) age: Above the age where I know it instantly. The age where I have to think for a minute. 38 employer: Adobe location: Lafayette, LA when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My mom’s employer [...]

Interview with Kiran Ruth from Bangalore, India

name: Kiran Ruth age: 25 employer: Thoughtnet Technologies Pvt Ltd., location: Bangalore , India when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I think I started using computer when I was in third grade.My uncle usually had (still has) loads of cool gadgets which I had access to . My cousin and me used to [...]

Interview with Nick Kwiatkowski aka @quetwo

name: Nick Kwiatkowski age: 30 employer: Michigan State University location: Lansing, Michigan when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My dad was into computers well before I was born. He saw them as video game systems, and always had the latest one. My first computer was a Colecovision Adam Family PC, which [...]

Interview with Luca Mezzalira from Italy

name: Luca Mezzalira age: 28 employer: CEO & Flash Platform Architect location: Padova (ITALY) when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first for cycle was written in 2004 after 8 months I was Macromedia Certified on Flash MX 2004 developer. I love code after the first day that I started to [...]