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Programming Culture, My Stand, part3...

The Palm Zire, and T|X, Open source

Multiple Sclerosis, the Death of a career, a new life of dreams

In February of 2000, I fell and hurt my ankle. I had been stumbling and falling off and on for a number of months now, but I had put it down to working to much and being tiered. This time I thought I had really gotten hurt. I heard “crunchy” noises in my ankle, and it was puffing up like a balloon. I was taken to the ER, and they could see nothing, so “a… Continue

Programming Culture, My Stand, part2...

VM, CP, REXX

PVA/EPVA inc.,IBM ES9000, Windows, NOVELL

So Dataproducts ended up closing the Milford NH plant, and consolidated to California. I got a job at a Direct Mail facility named PVA/EPVA inc. I ran high speed cold fusion laser printers printing out address labels and laser letters for non-profit organization mailings, third shift. These printers where channel attached to an IBM mainframe.

Ah, the IBM mainframe. When I first started working for… Continue

Programmer's are a funny bunch. Most can be rather “language centric.” Let me set the record straight, or at least definitively bent, for my own position. For the most part when I speak of programming I am speaking of any work in any programming language, scripting language, markup, or combination therein. Having said that, I do have my own bias's.

To understand my particular programming psychosis, let me first diagram my path through the various idioms of programming. It goes something like th… Continue