I excised a succession of dated hip-hop references, considered admitting I'd been involved in letting some dogs out a while back, then finally decided that what the world really, really needed from the title of my first post was the answer to the 1984 Musical Question of the Year. Which says little about me, per se, but maybe much about my priorities.
I go by many names -- programmer, technical lead, developer, systems analyst, architect (<-- this one only when AJ's not looking). I work for a small professional services company (to be very vague) in Minneapolis. Over the last ten years, I've worked on designing, building, and maintaining a wide variety of systems for data collection, reporting, and facilitating certain types of communications between employees. We use mostly Microsoft technologies, but use free/OSS tools extensively. Lately -- basically the whole last year and a half -- I've been going back and forth on the right balance between Fire-and-Motion and learning the new technologies that are starting to make life easier.
Besides the stuff that AJ said on the "Who Are You?" post, my main reason for wanting to do this blog is to pass on some of my more obscure programming knowledge. I often find myself doing things that no one else seems to be doing, at least as far as Google can tell me. And I figure that the next time somebody needs to implement an AJAX driver for your pile or your bus, using the Eviscerator pattern in OBrainfsck, they could probably use the benefit of my experience. Because it was very, very difficult. The bus driver especially.
So, welcome, glad you're here, glad we're here, enough with the formalities, let's get down to whatever will pass as "business" around here.