This is Peter speaking. I’m experimenting with some blogging ideas and ideas in general. If you like them, let me know. If you don’t, let me know, but be gentle.
I started life as a techie. Messing with that C64 my dad bought and those Radio Shack electronic 100-in-1 experiment kits. As was foretold in the stars, I ended up in engineering, but managed to stay away from the real stuff (buildings, yeah) and ended up in the computer science department.
Bedazzled by all that hardware and especially the miles of network cables, I stuck around after my Master of Science and went for a PhD. Right around the 2000 bubble, networking was still hip, so that was going to be my subject. I built application clusters, I built grids, I wrote management software and I automated all that. Servers adapted to the load, requesting backup, etc. It was magic, now that magic is confined to “the book”. The one that covers my research and will forever sit on “the shelf”.
During all those university years, one interest stuck, that is the creation of content. Where do you get ideas? And more importantly, how do you develop them without loosing interest. It was a loosing battle, but the subjects that stuck are still here with me today. 3D, multimedia, new technology, fancy shiny new toys, hype-of-the-day.
In 2005 I received my 3-year itch, a year overdue, I had to move. Also, there was this money thing calling out to me, so I ended up in banking. Experienced in J2EE, I now am considered an expert in client side web site optimization (JavaScript and all that) and have picked up team leading as a very interesting side dish. But I feel pigeonholed and don’t want to be. So there is the blog, and various other projects, and that 3-year itch. The journey never ends.
And this is were we are today, nice to meet you.
Share and Enjoy:
Categories
Archives
Subscribe
If you liked this post, why not subscribe to the RSS feed? Two times a week, you'll receive the latest post right in your news reader or mailbox.
About
This is Peter speaking. I’m experimenting with some blogging ideas and ideas in general. If you like them, let me know. If you don’t, let me know, but be gentle.
I started life as a techie. Messing with that C64 my dad bought and those Radio Shack electronic 100-in-1 experiment kits. As was foretold in the stars, I ended up in engineering, but managed to stay away from the real stuff (buildings, yeah) and ended up in the computer science department.
Bedazzled by all that hardware and especially the miles of network cables, I stuck around after my Master of Science and went for a PhD. Right around the 2000 bubble, networking was still hip, so that was going to be my subject. I built application clusters, I built grids, I wrote management software and I automated all that. Servers adapted to the load, requesting backup, etc. It was magic, now that magic is confined to “the book”. The one that covers my research and will forever sit on “the shelf”.
During all those university years, one interest stuck, that is the creation of content. Where do you get ideas? And more importantly, how do you develop them without loosing interest. It was a loosing battle, but the subjects that stuck are still here with me today. 3D, multimedia, new technology, fancy shiny new toys, hype-of-the-day.
In 2005 I received my 3-year itch, a year overdue, I had to move. Also, there was this money thing calling out to me, so I ended up in banking. Experienced in J2EE, I now am considered an expert in client side web site optimization (JavaScript and all that) and have picked up team leading as a very interesting side dish. But I feel pigeonholed and don’t want to be. So there is the blog, and various other projects, and that 3-year itch. The journey never ends.
And this is were we are today, nice to meet you.