Years of Study: 2002 - 2006

Some of this time (2002 - 2005) was spent studying "Computing & Intelligent Systems" at Brookes University in Oxford, England.

Some of the time I spent working on a variety of commercial / freelance / bespoke consulting and development projects. These are listed on the right. I certainly liked doing all of them—it is refreshing to work toward a well-defined goal with a deadline, to deliver, and to be paid!

But most of this time was spent developing private projects that were fun, interesting, challenging. They could have become startups, they could have become open source systems, but eventually they never made it to the outside world. Their primary purpose was for me to build, to create, and above all to make mistakes and learn.

I built prototypical A.I. systems, I wrote computer languages, several web content management systems (everyone did this back in the day, it seems!), all kinds of developer and productivity tools, and I built SuDoku Pro and Quotator.

I started in 1998 with QBasic, HTML in 1999, Visual Basic in 2000, ASP and PHP in 2001, and everything else (XML / CSS / SQL / ETC / ETC) with .NET as my core platform and C# as my core language from 2002 onwards.