Carlos Santander B. wrote:
> Since there're many new faces around here, I thought maybe we could run the introductions again. (This already happened about 2 years ago: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/11799.html). You can add other things if you want to.
> 

Oh no! You /had/ to link to that post, didn't you!

Lol! :-P

A few things have changed since then, although I'm still an EMT.

I've been a little more involved in D since then. :-)

Later,

John R.

Name: Eric Anderton (aka Pragma)
Age: 27
Location: Washington, DC
Email: ericanderton at yahoo dot com
Background:
I was born and raised here in the VA suburbs of DC, and now enjoy life on the
less-expensive side of the river (MD).

I'm really a web programmer, although I got my start back in high-school learning Pascal, C++ and ASM almost simultaneously.  Since then, I've entered the market as a web contractor, so I had to learn a whole host of other tools: ASP, SQL, Java, .NET, VB/Access, PHP, HTML, Javascript and ColdFusion.  D, however, holds a special place for me since its doing something right, something that all these other languages don't do: keeping what works, and fixing what doesn't.

Currently I'm working on DSP, a web-development preprocessor/language/platform for D.  My aim is to have the project mature into a ColdFusion-like platform, without all the fluff.

I'm also working on a CMS named "Cilantro" in php.  Its currently serving up my blog and my wife's business site (www.djsolaries.com).  One day, I hope to have the whole mess ported over to DSP.  In the meantime, I expect to open up the codebase in a few months, after I get some more features nailed down.

My wiki page has a little more information about what I'm up to.

When not coding at work, and at home, I enjoy spelunking and camping.  Plus, I've been known to write music, but lately coding seems to be all my muse wants to talk about. :)

Wiki Page: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EricAnderton
Dev Blog: http://www.djsolaries.com/pragma
DSP: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsp

Name: Sebastian Beschke
Age: 18
Location: Germany, near Hannover
Current Occupation: Civilian Servant in a hospital. Before, I was in high school, afterwards I plan on studying computer science, with japanology as a minor.
What I've done in D: Mostly Sofud (http://sofu.sf.net/), a file format library, and Auf Sie Mit Gebrüll (http://randomz.heim.at/aufsie/aufsie11.zip), a puzzle game.
Started programming in QBASIC when I was about 10. Switched to C++ at 15 or something.

Name: John Demme
Age: 19
Location: My hometown is near Princeton, New Jersey, but I'm currently attending the University of Maryland at College Park

Background:
Like most of you, I started programming in a BASIC variant around the age of 10.  Moved from that to VB, to Perl, some other scripting languages, then I finally learned Java about 2.5 years ago.  I've come to D from there with no experience in a natively-compiled language (I didn't even understand what linking was).  It's been an interesting experience.  I've been a Linux geek for about 4 years (won't touch Windows now).  I'm currently in my 2nd semester at UMD seeking a Major in Computer Engineering.

D stuff:
It's been almost a year since I came across D while searching for a good programming language to use on my main project, neuralNexus.  Since then, I've spent most of my D programming time working on neuralNexus, a database project (neuralnexus.com).

Recently, I've been spending a lot of my not-so-free time on an XML and XML-RPC library for Mango.  Although I've found it hard to get around some of D's rougher edges due to a lack of experience in C or C++, I'm addicted.

John Reimer wrote:
> Carlos Santander B. wrote:
> 
>> Since there're many new faces around here, I thought maybe we could run the introductions again. (This already happened about 2 years ago: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/11799.html). You can add other things if you want to.
>>
> 
> Oh no! You /had/ to link to that post, didn't you!
> 
> Lol! :-P
> 

Of course: I didn't want to take credit for an idea that wasn't mine :D

> A few things have changed since then, although I'm still an EMT.
> 
> I've been a little more involved in D since then. :-)
> 
> Later,
> 
> John R.

_______________________
Carlos Santander Bernal

Charles wrote:
> wow this reads terribly, how do i delete it ?
>

Hmm?  I didn't think it read terribly. I thought it was interesting (as all the introductions have been so far; it's kind of like reading a mini autobiography).  In fact, since you mentioned a debugger and ide in the works, I'm very much looking forward to what you eventually release, free or not.

If you /really/ want to delete, I guess that depends on which newsreader you are using.  You should be able to "cancel" the message from most newsreaders.  I use Mozilla Thunderbird.  It has a "cancel message" option in a context menu that pops up when I right click on the message.

Later,

John R.

Yea I use outlook express I can't find that option .  I downloaded thunderbird and tried to cancel that way , it looked successful but I can still see it in outlook. :S

Charlie
"John Reimer" <brk_6502@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cu19ij$mt2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Charles wrote:
> > wow this reads terribly, how do i delete it ?
> >
>
> Hmm?  I didn't think it read terribly. I thought it was interesting (as all the introductions have been so far; it's kind of like reading a mini autobiography).  In fact, since you mentioned a debugger and ide in the works, I'm very much looking forward to what you eventually release, free or not.
>
> If you /really/ want to delete, I guess that depends on which newsreader you are using.  You should be able to "cancel" the message from most newsreaders.  I use Mozilla Thunderbird.  It has a "cancel message" option in a context menu that pops up when I right click on the message.
>
> Later,
>
> John R.

Charles wrote:
> Yea I use outlook express I can't find that option .  I downloaded
> thunderbird and tried to cancel that way , it looked successful but I can
> still see it in outlook. :S
> 
> Charlie

It was successful.  I can't see the message contents anymore when I click on it.  It displays "Error! Bad article number" instead.

If you are still skeptical whether it worked or not, you could always check the web interface to see if it's gone there also.

Later,

John R.

Name: Dave
Age: 40
Location: Central Minnesota, US

Background:

Graduated - barely - with a BS in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. Unlike most here it seems, I didn't start programming until later on in life at the age of about 28 or so.

Have worked on a few 'nix systems as well as quite a bit of work on MS platforms and a little OS/400 encompassing most business orientated application areas, with past emphasis on building custom graphical reports from the Win32 API on up (for performance reasons; lots and lots of data and BIG graphics) and custom multi-tier and/or web-based Project Mgmt., CRM and ERP type software. Started programming hand-held laser scanners in BASIC for an inventory control application during my internship, and am currently doing work on/with network security related applications designed for high-throughput implementations on commodity hardware.

Have done work from DBA to software architecture/development to sys. admin. Currently doing quite a bit of C/++, embedded DB, perl and shell scripting work. Fell in love with programming when I saw my brother-in-law's pay check whilst moving furniture for a job at the time ;) Really, really like D because it is a large step forward in many respects and I find myself appreciating it ever more since I learned of it back in August of last year.

This is the best newsgroup centered "community" that I've followed for any period of time, full of smart yet genuinely amicable people, which seems rare to say the least. I'm pretty confident D will make a positive impact on the IT and CS communities in general and want to be along for the ride. Would like to contribute more, but have had trouble finding the time and will keep searching for the time <g>.

> This is the best newsgroup centered "community" that I've followed for
> any
> period of time, full of smart yet genuinely amicable people, which
> seems rare to
> say the least.

That's what I've found also. Although people have strong opinions - often with the experience to back them up - they're generally game to listen to others and/or admit they're wrong. You really don't find that much anywhere else.

The tone and content started heading south badly last year, which, along with time squeeze, caused me to loose interest (in the ng, at least). It seems to be back up to scruff now. (I'm open to the possibility that its improvement and my absence may not be coincidental. Sniff!)

:-)


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