Eleven years ago, a programmer was borning

That doesn’t make me younger, but yes, this is the eleventh anniversary of my programming life!

That was in late 1993, in the middle of nowhere (actually this was the french north-west country-side ), that my natural curiosity had brought me to open the application manual. In front of my so-cool Amstrad 6128 computer (maybe my interrest for England comes from here ) , I typed in what should become my HelloWorld to the computing planet. As far as I remember, it was a couple of lines like that (sorry folks, strings are in French: I hadn’t started to learn English yet ):

Followed by the magical command that changed the development of my life:

At this point, a passion was born. At this point, I knew what I’ll be doing the next ten years. And obviously that’s where I’m now!

Thenceforth this first, ummm, program done, I taught myself to program using the Locomotive Basic until 1997. At this date I got my first PC, and moved to QuickBasic and then Visual Basic. This epoch were also my first steps to Internet, with my first website in 1999 (HTML/Php3/DBase), as well as the first try with GNU/Linux. In parallele, I oriented my studies to IT, thus Scientific courses at this stage.

Interresting things happened in 2000, where armed of my Baccalauréat pass, I switched to serious things with the DUT analyst-programmer training at the university. In 2002 I was amongst their very best graduates, and moved to England to push further my studies. This ended this year with my BSc graduation, and am finally desesperately looking to earn money from my passion !

Ten years of development means many projects, in many areas. This also means study of a hundred things. And well, even today I still learn new fields of interrest! From a Pacman clone under MS-Dos, to advanced interpreters, without forgetting utilities, Java music applications, dynamic websites or Winamp plug-ins. Well, these years were really cool. I look forward the future will be as great.