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!!
Well, Thursday was the closing day of POSSCON. What can I say? It was awesome sauce! Great speakers, good times. Scott McNeely’s talk was good and full of perspective. Don’t agree with him on two topics: php and software patents…but I am more of a NGO type (if you were there, you’ll get it!)\nThe BOF Lunch was good times too. We had some good interest in the PHP users group.
Bottom line: Can’t wait until next year!