Psios

Welcome to Psios.

I have worked in the software development industry for over 15 years as employee, contractor or consultant, with such major corporations as Apple, Oracle and Cisco and a dozen small startups as well.

The best part of my career and being an entrepreneur is working with new technologies and new companies every year. In the past this ranged from being an Applications Developer working on projects that ran on the Mac OSand sometimes I confess Windows.

This time I am back to Apple and Applications Development, but this time working as an iPhone Applications Developer, Interface Designer and Trainer.

Here are some Software Development questions:

How old were you when you started programming? I was 16 when I had my first exposure in school. 21 when I had my first job writing a utility for a project.

How did you get started in programming? I took a night class at IBM and and loved the challenge of looking at problems and solving them.

What was your first language? Wrote a modem communications program in C Language.

What was the first real program you wrote? At Apple I wrote a test program that tested all the printer commands but the second version was much more advanced testing modem functionality which got me into Modem Communications where I worked on a few Modem Application for some smaller startups.

What languages have you used since you started programming? Think Pascal & C; Turbo C/C++; MPW Pascal & C/C++; CodeWarrior C/C++; NewtonScript; Visual Studio Basic, C/C++; Perl, Flash ActionScript; Eclipse Java; Xcode C, C++, Objective-C

What was your first professional programming gig? I left Apple Computers as a Permanent employee to work at a small startup for a year. Before that I only did part-time projects.

If you knew then what you know now, would you have started in programming? Absolutely! But I never would of left it like I did a few times. I was a Sys Admin on a project, and then did some WhiteBox texting, Functional Automated Testing (all C, C++, Visual Basic still). But I always enjoyed Software Development more than all my other ‘industry’ jobs.

What was the most fun you ever had programming? Hard to isolate this to a single time as there were 4 times in my career. (1) The first time I was at Apple (I later returned 3 times as a Consultant). as an employee where I taught myself first Pascal then later C and wrote utilities for several projects I was working on. (2) After I left Apple my first time I was full-time working on projects for Macintosh, Dos, Windows. (3) Wrote some projects in Flash Actionscript the most fun was a CDROM project. (4) Most recently now I am back working on a product from Apple, but this time Xcode and iPhone

I have the most fun when I am challenged with a problem and then research, read to figure out the best way to solve and implement the solution.

Thank you!

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