Today, I would like to give a little bit of perspective on what is going on in my world and take a minute to make a personal introduction. Hi, my name is Jason Hamilton, let me show you my world.
I am a professed geek, anyone who knows me will attest to that fact. I began playing Dungeons and Dragons when I was 9 years old, starting hacking windows when I was 12, was developing web pages and Internet content at 14, started developing real software at 16 and have spent the decade since learning as much as I can about all of the above. As I write this, I am sitting at my desk, finally fed up with Windows and am setting up a dual-boot configuration on my dinosaur desktop with Fedora9 and Windows XP (while writing this from a much better laptop). I have a (dated) personal web page on Geocities (http://www.geocities.com/kvorak), which desperately needs an update, but I have been spending most of my time setting up this blog, working on my Sourceforge.net project, codenamed 'Beholder', and working at my dream day job (where I get to write software from home).
The Beholder project is my little baby at the moment and likely to be a frequent topic of discussion here on this blog because it blends all of my favorite things together. It is a C++ static library of classes and functions that will, when it is done, allow programmers with any level of understanding of the D20 game system to develop digital products based on the 4th edition rule set. The project is hosted over on Sourceforge.net (http://www.sourceforge.net) and is accepting more team members at the time of this writing.
During the day, I work for Abeo TS, a security software company based out of New Jersey. This really is a dream job and it gives me access to all sorts of resources that I didn't have before for learning new things, tips and tricks about software engineering. Unfortunately, it's time for me to join the morning huddle, so I'll send this post and follow up with any more thoughts later on.
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