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Well, I was born on a normal day in July, 1981 and have been creating chaos ever since. Born in North Carolina, but raised in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, I have been messing around with computers nearly my entire life. I wrote my first program in assembly when I was 11. In my early teens I ran a BBS connected to Fidonet and started building a website for my band. In 1999 I was introduced to Linux, and it was love at first compile. I started my career in IT in the early 2000's doing IT for a Car Dealership in Charlotte NC. I wrote my first major web app in Cold Fusion (an ecom app) at that time. In 2006 I left Charlotte and moved down to Columbia where starting working as a developer, freelancer and consultant. Currently I am working as a freelance developer and DevOps consultant!!


Who Needs an IDE Anyway?

I’ve written a lot of posts about ide’s over the years. Since I am using codeigniter, I did a brief look around to see if there was a good ide for coding CI. What I found was that a good MVC (like CI or Ruby) really negates the need for an ide. A really good programmer’s text editor works just fine. I use TextMate.

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