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.
It is my hope to find employment with a company seeking
object orientated , reusable tools and infrastructure.