The obligatory bio post
Posted on December 7, 2005 | 4 Comments | No TrackBacks
This is the post where I introduce myself and try to convince you that I’m someone worth listening to.
My name is Jay Buys and I’ve been writing code of some sort for close to 20 years now and I’m only in my mid 20’s so that should tell you how young I got started. When I was about 7 or 8 my parents brought home a Commodore 64 computer and I was instantly hooked. Not only did I love playing games on it but I immediately wanted to know what made it work. So, armed with a few books from the local library, I started learning and writing code in BASIC, a distant ancestor of the Visual Basic.NET language I use today.
I got online for the first time in the early ‘90s, back when being online meant dialing into a local Bulletin Board System (a BBS for the truly old-school). From there I graduated to Usenet Newsgroups and eventually the infantile world wide web. I’m one of what seems like a few who still remembers the web the way it began; before Flash, before syndicated content, before Google, when Yahoo! looked like this.
I started to learn HTML literally the same week I first browsed the web and have been doing it ever since. I hold a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Fredonia in Media Arts and I currently have a full-time job in Washington, DC working with an extremely talented team of other developers, designers, content creators, and communication gurus who I continue to learn from every day.
My goal is take what I’ve learned over the years and share it here on this blog. I think we all learn best by drawing from others so comments and suggestions are strongly encouraged.
Yes! a new blog that I will actually read!
1)I remember those early days, cause I was sitting next to you shading in graph paper! I think I latched on to pushing pixils the way you latched on to GO TO LINE 20.
2)Funny you mentioned Yahoo! Since I using my.yahoo.com as an RSS aggregator that's where I will be reading this blog.
3)Countdown to Russ Feingold for President post... 5...4...3..
Congrats Jay! I'll be sure to check your blog from time to time for your insight and words of wisdom.
Good Luck!
Now THIS will be a good blog! Much wisdom to share, wise one...
Good luck!
I'm glad codescene is up and running. I'll be making frequent trips to this site.