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Post by Carl Gundel - admin on Dec 11, 2008 13:00:08 GMT -5
Every once in a while I'm going to restart this thread.
I'd like to encourage people to say something about themselves. I'll start. My name is Carl Gundel, and I'm the author of Run BASIC along with my partner Scott McLaughlin. We decided that the world needs a web programming system that is fun and productive. So Run BASIC was born out of Liberty BASIC which is our Windows programming language.
I moderate this forum.
I like chess, camping, photography, programming languages and music. I play the guitar sometimes (and drums when I can) and I like to read the Bible.
Your turn. :-)
-Carl
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Post by ekvirtanen on Dec 11, 2008 23:18:27 GMT -5
My name is Kristian Virtanen, im 33 years old in few days and i do live in Finland.
In my family, belongs wife nominee, our firstborn (7 months old), 2 cats and a dog. I like to program for a hobby, and currently i have maybe something like n^c[/] unfinished projects goin on.
RB is neat language, and for sure i will use it more when i get my local server up...which is sometime in future.
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Post by Jerry Muelver on Dec 12, 2008 10:44:37 GMT -5
I'm Jerry Muelver, a cultural agitator in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, almost retired from free lance technical writing after 40 years in the business. I'm married to a psychologist who uses my behaviors as examples of what not to do, for her patients. I have written a couple of books about computer languages, and have programmed in some 15 different languages over the years. I'm also a human language fan, a former Russian interpreter for the US Army, and besides Russian can get around in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese, though my current language of choice is Ido (see http://idomondo.org). I'm an amateur musician, playing jazz vibraphone in small group ensembles, and messing around with blues harmonica, guitar, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, flute, tin whistle, nose-flute, and scat kazoo.
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Post by StefanPendl on Dec 13, 2008 4:16:27 GMT -5
Stefan Pendl speaking, I am in computers, currently maintaining a CAD/CAM environment in a mid-range mold maker company, mainly of plastic injection molds. I made one of my hobbies my profession (guess which one ), other hobbies are, RC model building, reading books. I am from Austria, so I do mountain hiking and skiing too. I am using Run BASIC for company-wide applications, allowing me to reduce maintenance time. I forgot that I am cooking and backing to get my head free of work stuff.
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Post by JackWebb on Dec 13, 2008 17:11:57 GMT -5
Hi everyone, My name is John Puccio, I'm a merchandiser for Bayer Corporation. Long story short, my fetish for BASIC started back in 1982. COBOL was the first computer language I used. I taught myself BASIC while still in school and the rest is history. I've also used RPG II and IBM 360 Assembler. I once took a course in C because I felt that I needed to "advance"... After the course decided there wasn't much of anything I could do in C as opposed to BASIC. I do this mostly as a hobby because I like to tinker but I did do it professionally for a few years. What brought me to RunBASIC is that I would like to build a website that my staff and I can use to exchange ideas and upload pictures of our work. It would also be used for training purposes and company wide announcements. Since I'm not going to be paid for this effort, I wanted a tool that would enable me to build sites quickly and easily. Thanks Carl for having this vision! Among my other interests are anything to do with boats. I like to cook, my Italian Nona taught me well. I read somewhere that Carl has a thing for old VW's, so do I. I had a collection of two VW bugs, and eight Karmann Ghia's. One that I built myself had a six cylinder chevy engine in it. i Also have a Mercedes Benz that runs on Vegetable oil. Well that's me always tinkering. My blueberry pop-tarts are now burnt to a crisp...
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Post by Randy on Dec 13, 2008 22:14:57 GMT -5
Hi!
My name is Randy Stalding. I live in Washington state. I work full time at Lowes Home Inprovement. My wife and I haved owned and operated a retail hobby store for the last 15 years (rockets, models, trains, etc).
My programming experience started in 1966 on an IBM 1401 computer using punched cards to store both programs and data. Between 1966 and 1972 I became proficient in nine computer languages (most of which are defunct).
After graduating from WSU and becoming a new 2nd Lt, I worked in the basement of Pentagon in a data center that supported the Army staff. The Army, in its infinite wisdom, used me as a consultant to the DA staff and as a procurement officer for computer equipment and software. Never got to program anything for 3 years. ....but I did get to meet Admiral Grace Hopper, the mother of COBOL.
While serving in Heidelberg, Germany, I became the Computer Operations manager for the Army's largest data center in Europe. Never got to program anything for 3 years.
After leaving the Army in 1979 I was hired by Bank of America as a senior technical consultant with the idea that would do capacity analysis on IBM mainframes and peripherals. In addition I was to write funding proposals for computer equipment. Never got to program anything for 3 years.
Went to work Signetics Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer. They made me the Strategic Planner for Corporate Information Systems. Never got to program anything for 1 year.
Got laid off and promptly went to work for World Savings and loan as a capacity planner. They made me the project leader for their new corporate data center in San Leandro, CA. Never got to program anything for 5 years.
Went to work for Tandem Computers in Cupertino, CA. I was tasked to lead coordination meetings for 28 construction project managers and to teach them to use formal project management standards and Microsoft Project. Never got to program anything for a year and a half.
Now I would like to program something!!! Hopefully something useful.
My interest is in building applications without becoming an expert programmer. Both Liberty Basic and Run Basic look like very good tools for building simple applications. Carl and the others appear to have a very good handle on human behavior and technical standards. Gosh, I get butterflies in stomach when I think about where they might go with these tools.
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Post by darencraddock on Dec 14, 2008 17:46:36 GMT -5
Hi all,
My name is Daren Craddock, I'm a school teacher in England (city of Sheffield) and teach 12 to 18 year olds (my role is Head of Computing).
Although my professional training was in electronics and teaching Design & Technology, I've always had an interest in computers, my first being a ZX81 when I was 12 years old! I've loved BASIC ever since.
I've just bought RB because I was looking into ways of developing a means of teaching BASIC programming whereby my students wouldn't have to download complex resource-heavy applications. Was looking for an online system. RB is like a dream come true! Loving it, and enjoying learning how to use it.
My interests? Family (of course), my local church (like Carl I love my Bible), weight training & fitness, tinkering around with internet stuff and my new Samsung NC10 netbook (brilliant machine, battery runs for over 8 hours on a single charge!).
Am seriously looking into using RB as a teaching tool. God bless y'all!
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Post by rich357 on Feb 3, 2009 22:32:04 GMT -5
My name is Jose Jiminez.
Huh? Oh sorry. Actually it is Richard Bullis. I have been programming in BASIC since the mid 70's. When there was no windows! I had started to dabble in Qbasic 4.5 when windows 3.1 came on the scene.
Over the years I have owned and operated a few web sites. Most of which are of my own creation. Currently, I am working on a project which I hope Run Basic will help solve a big problem with. On my oldies site, I plan on having a list of names, then when you click on that name, the information appears in a "window" below or beside the name. I could do it in javascript, but me and JS don't get along to well.
I think RB just might be a good thing for the web.
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