I have had two Moment Of Understanding events in my programming life. The first was when I was nine and my older brother bought his first computer. The Atari 400. The first time I wrote
10 Print "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
I knew what I wanted to do.
The second experience was in December of '95 when my older brother gave me a copy of the Design Patterns book by the Gang Of Four. and I finally grasped the year of Smalltalk I had taken in college.
Since then I have been waiting for the the next Moment Of Understanding.
I am currently interested in:
1. Building frameworks for change.
2. Self describing systems.
I have been using Smalltalk in an academic and professional setting since 1994.
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For the past 2 years I have been doing Java development for a commercial software company in the DC area. I have Test Infected other developers and hope to have the next project done with better test coverage.
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