Here’s all of the interviews that everyone has graciously taken the time to complete over the last couple of months. Thank you everyone so much for your time. It’s been really awesome to get feedback on all of these topics. I hope everyone has enjoyed the interviews. There are still some outstanding interviews and I’ll [...]
name: Simon Bailey age: 35 employer: My own company – Newtriks LTD location: Leicestershire (UK) when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? My first contact was an Acorn Electron in the 80′s and a Spectrum 48k. I did nothing particularly dynamic on computers and held little interest in gaming, however I did [...]
name: Dominic Graefen / @devboy_org age: 24 employer: freelance as devboy location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? The first computer I used was a 386-something running DOS which my parents bought from a family friend. I was about 9 years old. Since that day I’ve been hooked [...]
name: Robin Debreuil age: 1966 employer: Self Employed, contract mostly to develop games (Dinsey, RiotGames, Sesame Street etc). Work with my brother and two sons. location: A farm near Miami Manitoba Canada when did you first get started with computers/programming? how? why? I first used a PET2001 – that was around 12 years old. I [...]
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? [...]
