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I am a Software Engineer for Allaire Corporation, working on the Homesite and Cold Fusion Studio products. I work primarily in Borland Delphi, but also work in Visual C++, C++ Builder, Cold Fusion, (it's kinda neat to actually work with the products you are developing). Allaire is a totally cool company to work for. They must be, because I gave up a very lucrative consulting business to work for them (See Below).
Formerly I was a freelance consultant, operating as Forcier Computer Services (dba) from Spring of 1989 right up until the beginning of 1999.
I worked for a variety of companies and had the opportunity to work in many different areas of programming, application and systems
development, as well as designing courseware and training materials for a variety of seminars in CA-Clipper, CA-Visual Objects, Borland Delphi,
and Java. I also wrote quite a few articles that were published between 1990 and 1998 for several programming publications, including:
C User's Journal
Aquarium Clipper Journal
Aquarium Delphi Journal
Delphi Developer
I was also published in the 1994 Computer Associates Technicon Proceedings, providing two white paper presentations on advanced CA-Clipper
application development.
I currently have two training white papers available on this web site:
The Truth? I've resolved myself to the fact that I am probably never going to be a guitar hero. I'll never be another Jeff Beck, Pat Metheny, or Greg Passler (definitely one of the most gifted guitar players I have met. A true "Yoda" of guitar teachers as well.). Heck, I'll be lucky if I can get up to playing like that guy from Social Distortion (rated as one of the worst guitar players in the scene on several alt.guitar newsgroups, but he sounds pretty okay to me...) This is not an issue of self-esteem or anything, it's just facing the blatant, honest truth that I started in this game way to late, and waited until after I became a Software Engineer and the Internet and multiple development platforms took off before I started to learn to play music. If I had started back in the mid to late eighties, I would have been much better off. Back then I only had to learn a handful of tools to be productive: DOS, dBase, and Clipper. Today I have to keep up on a dizzying array of stuff: Delphi, Java, C++, COM, DCOM, CORBA HTML, CSS, DHTML, OOD, OOA, Win32, NT, Linux, Open Standards.
