S
ome thirty plus years ago I toggled in
my first program, watched the lights blink and I was hooked for life.
As machines and Operating systems came and went, they instilled a pattern
of programing that made the differences in things like CPM,DOS, Unix and
windows largely a matter of skimming some documentation.
Around 1994 when gopher was still a popular way of getting around,
I got my first taste of the internet , and never looked back.
Since I already had been coding in C/C++ for years , I continued
to do so for the internet , where I expanded my cross platform
classes to support my work with Sockets, Server plug-ins,
CGI, database interfaces etc. One of my recent server projects
provides a high capacity XML based middleware to MySql featuring
forking , shared memory, and runlevel/init.d support.
When Netscape came out with javascript I climbed on that band wagon
as well, and today have one of the few frames friendly,
cross browser (IE,NS,NS6,NS7,Firefox etc.) DHTML libraries available.
I also do AJAX,SOAP,REST,WSDL and more.
One of my favorite types of project has been
basic-auth: authentication systems, composed
of a TCP/IP Server that acts as a middle-ware to SQL.
Another component is a Netscape (nsapi) server plugin.
This system allows for token, date and IP based subscriptions
to on-line materials.
Another favorite activity has been making the process of
developing for Asterisk PBX phone systems far easier by externalizing
dial plan activities to the more common context of PHP
via my own open source FastAGI ad hoc PHP loader.
It is my hope to find employment with a company seeking
object orientated , reusable tools and infrastructure.