Hi! I’m Joe. You can also find me here:
I’ve been infatuated with the computers since forever, and completely hooked on the Web since the mid-90s, learning to surf cyberspace at the high school computer lab’s “community night” on under-powered Pentium 75 Gateway 2000s.
In 2004 I made a fairly unimpressive PHP/DHTML/flat file-driven proof of concept for an open world RPG. Somehow that project landed me a job as a bona fide web developer the following year, and I began recklessly cobbling together PHP, MySQL, divs, and CSS for people to load up, hopefully in IE6.
Since then, I’ve kept busy with freelancing and enterprise CMS work, much of it for health and insurance companies. Most of my learning these days is split between generally becoming a better programmer, learning the ins and outs of JavaScript, and keeping up with the rapid pace of current tools and best practices for the web.
I continue to be a huge fan of the web for its openness, flexibility, discoverability, pervasiveness, and ever-increasing capabilities – and I’m excited to be a small part of that.
Lastly, for kicks, here’s some non-programmery stuff I like:
- Ars Technica
- Cracked
- XKCD
- Don’t Hit Save
- Badass of the Week
- Tim Keller
- CPG Gray
- Total Philosophy
- Pandemic
- Dominion
- Zero Punctuation
- Mass Effect
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Max Payne
- Rise of Nations
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- Bastion
- Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
- Command & Conquer
- Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- SpaceChem