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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!!

....Creating Chaos Since 1981!

  1. Just Got Back from A Mini Vacation

    \n Well, just got back Friday from a little trip to Edisto. I’ll be posting pictures once I process them in Aperture and upload them to Picasa …

  2. A Late Review of POSSCON

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  3. Two days to POSSCON

    \n Well, two days to go. I plan on blogging from the conference. I can hardly wait. It’ll be so much fun meeting other geeks!! …

  4. Going to POSSCON!!

    \n Taking this next Saturday off and I am going to POSSCON, a local Open Source Conference here in Columbia…It will be good times! I only wish there would be somthing on Ruby or PHP (as this would be of greater interest to me) but they will be speakers on Haskell and Erlang. The keynote should be cool though. http://www.posscon.org …

  5. WordPress from my iPhone!

    \n This is my very first ever post from my iPhone. In fact, I am accessing the wifi from my MacBook which is connecting via satelite. Shoot! …

  6. Developing on the Mac

    \n The main reason that I made the switch from Linux to the Mac was the desire for a streamlined and simply put “easy” development enviroment. I currently can say that I have found utopia. For starters, Coda is everything that a developer could want in a package that one thought would never be possible. Then, I discovered a bunch of Dashboard widget that assist in the development process as well. The dashboard is great because it sits transparently over the page, displaying information. I have a widget that monitors MySql, one that gives me access to the complete PHP documentation, Ruby Documentation as well as searches for Ruby Classes, HTML, CSS and PHP. I even have a cool widget that can measure screen pixels! …

  7. Screenshot

    \n Here is a screenshot of my current Desktop: …

  8. A cool meme

    \n Okay, so here is this really fun meme that I got from http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2009-03/31-andi_needs …

  9. Getting used to it.

    \n My wife asked for some help yesterday on her windows machine. I kept moving my mouse to the left of the windows…….. …

  10. It's Official. I've gone to the light side

    \n That’s right boys and girls, I now own a Macbook.  And I see no reason to put linux on it.   It all started, you could say, with Songbird.  I love the Songbird player for linux it is very nice and has tons of great features, but after a kernel backport to get my wireless working, Songbird started seg faulting. I install, uninstalled, reinstalled, compiled from source.  I always got the same seg fault.  I’ve had issues of this nature before, and usually I format and reinstall linux on my system.  The only problem is, that this is my development platform.  I work on my laptop.  I can’t continually have issues that require time consuming reinstalls.  On top of all this, I just got an iPhone and realized right off the bat that without iTunes, the experience would be painful.  So I got a really great deal on a carbon-fiber Macbook.  I don’t know how I lived this long without it! …

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