His new site, www.wilwheaton.net, is in php. He talks about that transition in his blog.
A question for the interview: How many hours a day do you spend online? And which activities do you spend most of that time on? (blog entries, web design, email, surfing, etc).
I found programming by accident after getting an ATA in Electronics. I figured if programming CPU chips was fun, maybe I should try computers?
I've been doing data processing related work for 10+ years. Writing programs in PL/I on IBM mainframes, tweaking, enhancing, writing from whole cloth. Now I'm finally in the development group and have a chance to program in something other than a dead language.
Although I sometimes envy the folks who can stay up all night for days on end and live in dark caves illuminated only by their monitors and lava lamps, I am not one. I like the outdoors too much, I like fresh air and skin that isn't pasty white.
My goals, reasons and motivations for programming: * make enough money to live and help support my family * stay excited about my job by taking on challenging assignments, learning new languages and approaches to software development * Write code that is robust, good-looking and useful. I especially like making someone else's job easier or more productive. Most of my co-workers are people I've known for 10+ years, it's nice to make their day occasionally. * Work for a company that doesn't harm the environment, promote cancer, create bombs, etc. * Although I'll never be a brilliant programmer or a giant of the genre, I am able to harness flashes of insight and an ability to communicate with the folks who will use my programs. I usually don't program for myself so it's important that the people that I do program for get what they need. * I want to enjoy my job for the most part. I don't want to have to drag myself into work every morning and spend the rest of the day figuring out how to cut out early. * I want programming, with all it's sexiness and potential for sucking me totally under, to be a part of my life, a positive contributing part, but not the whole of it.
And for the most part I've gotten what I want. Not always, not everyday, but mostly. Now if I could only figure out a way to do this for a living but have the body I had while I worked in a warehouse, then I'd have something! cKc
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A question for the interview: How many hours a day do you spend online? And which activities do you spend most of that time on? (blog entries, web design, email, surfing, etc).
I found programming by accident after getting an ATA in Electronics. I figured if programming CPU chips was fun, maybe I should try computers?
I've been doing data processing related work for 10+ years. Writing programs in PL/I on IBM mainframes, tweaking, enhancing, writing from whole cloth. Now I'm finally in the development group and have a chance to program in something other than a dead language.
Although I sometimes envy the folks who can stay up all night for days on end and live in dark caves illuminated only by their monitors and lava lamps, I am not one. I like the outdoors too much, I like fresh air and skin that isn't pasty white.
My goals, reasons and motivations for programming:
* make enough money to live and help support my family
* stay excited about my job by taking on challenging assignments, learning new languages and approaches to software development
* Write code that is robust, good-looking and useful. I especially like making someone else's job easier or more productive. Most of my co-workers are people I've known for 10+ years, it's nice to make their day occasionally.
* Work for a company that doesn't harm the environment, promote cancer, create bombs, etc.
* Although I'll never be a brilliant programmer or a giant of the genre, I am able to harness flashes of insight and an ability to communicate with the folks who will use my programs. I usually don't program for myself so it's important that the people that I do program for get what they need.
* I want to enjoy my job for the most part. I don't want to have to drag myself into work every morning and spend the rest of the day figuring out how to cut out early.
* I want programming, with all it's sexiness and potential for sucking me totally under, to be a part of my life, a positive contributing part, but not the whole of it.
And for the most part I've gotten what I want. Not always, not everyday, but mostly. Now if I could only figure out a way to do this for a living but have the body I had while I worked in a warehouse, then I'd have something!
cKc