Bio

I started learning HTML at age 12 back when standards were irrelevant and Microsoft FrontPage was the thing to use. I was stubborn and stuck with plain Notepad and learned every single HTML tag, to this day I am very glad I made that decision. I began learning Javascript and CSS about a year later in an effort to give my sites some "magic". I kinda got away from programming there for a few years and decided to grow up. I later took a VB6 class in high school and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The rest of the class used it as a nap hour, but I actually paid attention and was quite interested. I ended up researching VB a little in my spare time and I first learned about Microsoft's .NET framework (at the time, it was fairly new). It seemed so promising and easy to use, I knew this was what I was going to do for a living. After high school, I went to college for Computer Programming and learned Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and everything else anti-graphical), Advanced VB.NET, Advanced Java, XHTML/Javascript, JSP/Servlets. While learning JSPs and Servlets, I imagined how much easier ASP.NET had to be, and decided to look into it a little bit. Towards the end of college, I taught myself ASP.NET with the aid of online articles, blogs, and forums. It was a very simple transition for me. I am currently employed at an insurance company, mainly working on large ASP.NET web applications driven by SQL Server. My job is great, and I definitely enjoy working with Microsoft's promising technologies. In my spare time, you might find me at the bar drinking beer and astonishing people on the pool table. If not there, I am likely staring at an LCD monitor programming my heart out. My online alias is and always has been ]osh42O. When I get some spare time, I like to pwn noobs on the best multiplayer game ever: Counter-Strike Source (favorite map is cs_assault_old).