Programming has always been my passion. I was first exposed into the world of computing way back in the year 1995 during my elementary days, when my father bought a computer. It was an Epson box pre-installed with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1. I had my first taste of programming when I was messing around with it when he wasn't home. I'd read the user manuals and modify the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Needless to say, batch file programming was my very first.
During my high school days, I once again got exposed to programming during our computer classes during those 4 years. As a freshman, I would stumble upon the C source files left around by the senior students and I'd end up studying them and eventually made my own programs (despite not having prior lessons in C). We were taught old school QBasic, Pascal and C for our technology subjects.
College was the defining point of my programming career. While I was sharpening my HTML and CSS skills, a friend mentioned about learning "a better language" so it piqued my interest. This was when I first picked up PHP and MySQL and I found my niché. I started using PHP and I never turned back since.
I worked freelance during my college years, and now I'm employed by cr8v Web Solutions as a PHP Developer.
I have a preference for coding things by hand. I work from within Notepad++.
As you might have noticed, I'm currently retraining myself with AJAX and ActionScript 3.0. You could track my progress and general fooling around by heading over to The Dirt Lab or reading about it in my weblog.
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