- Started off with HTML in
notepad.exe
at age 11, - moved on to DHTML and the pain of cross browser JavaScript,
- then went onto ActionScript 2 in Flash 5
- followed by ASP (classic) in Dreamweaver 4.01 UltraDev,
- installing and hacking open source PHP CMSs
- while doing Java at university,
- while my job involved server-side ECMAScript
- started using CakePHP to build bespoke web apps,
- got paid to work on open-source software in the PHP community,
- created a startup where we Dockerized all the things,
- before switching to more DevOps-focused roles.