Hello and Salutations,
I have gone by many monikers over the years, but introduce myself here under
the one which netted me the most financial and educational gains, 10-Key.
Backstory:
Introduced to the concept of computing at a very young age with a Turing
Machine on pen and paper, I fell in love with the simplicity and purity that is
programming. From there it has been a rather spotty history I’m afraid.
Beginning with GW BASIC and that banana chucking gorilla, I enjoyed sifting
through other developers code and making small modifications to learn how
things worked. Stepped up to Web Design for a small car dealership in my
preteen years. Went to a technical college for a C.E.T., and got sidetracked
from pure programming with the beauty of even more knowledge of how it all
works. Went on to create a database system for a family owned video rental
store -Anyone here remember those?- shortly thereafter, and then got my first
introduction to C++.
Thanks to GameInstitute.com, I wrote a 3D rendering engine during my time as
a robotics specialist in the field. Thanks to the long hours and massive Red
Bull and Coffee marathons on that project, a mistaken install of Java -The
steamy liquid kind, not advisable btw- and my overall paranoia of integrating
with society at large, 5 years of development were scrapped. Learning from that
lesson, I now use Git and am in the process of setting up a file server for
home use while scrambling to recover -RECREATE- those lessons. Other previous
projects include a Management Reporting Suite that imported flat file data for
easier consumption in MS-Excel via VBA, a real time touchscreen data
acquisition project for manufacturing, and a point and click MS-Access GUI in
VB6, among others. More recent endeavors include the PHP/MySQL stack, the MEAN
stack, p5.js data visualizations, The classic GoF Design Patterns, Neural Net
exploration, and Game Development in Unity.
Having a family, while amazing, does make my efforts at coding less
concentrated than desired, however, approaching the big Four-Oh I find a need
to dig in again and make a contribution. I am unsure where my skills will come
in the most beneficial to the Apache OpenOffice project, but do have a sense of
excitement to be joining a community working on a piece of software that I have
come to adore.
Thank You All
for such an amazing suite, and for the opportunity for this old man to feel
useful once more.
Mike S. [10-key]
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