Dawn of the Geeks

If it’s not web-sites, it’s games. Over the past 12 years I’ve created a number of games using a variety of languages. The Archives gives a brief history of all the games I’ve created. I started off with QuickBASIC creating single player games. Then I got into C++ and eventually started making on-line games. Now I mainly create web-sites.

Programming games helps improve my web-development though. A lot of what I learn about optimization and code organization is relavent no matter what the project is. Every year I like to come up with a project to keep up with my offline programming. I’d hate to have spent so many years learning how to code in C/C++ and then stop and have to relearn it all again.

At work I use Perl mainly so I like to develop in PHP on my personal projects to keep up with that langauge as well. By combining all of the skills I’ve learned over the years I can create every aspect of any project. From creating the product to assembling the server, installing software and creating the web-site to advertise and manage the product. All this futzing around with things has paid off.