It all started back in high school at Parramatta Marist High in Sydney, Australia. Started tinkering with HTML and JavaScript in Notepad.exe in 1997, and ended up writing the school a new website by the year 2000.

Twelve years later, wanted a better solution than M$ Excel & M$ Access to track job attendances for work. Started researching PHP and MySQL to complement the HTML knowledge to write a little web app / CRM, then caught the bug. Swapped out Notepad.exe for Notepad++ and continued to write raw PHP, HTML, CSS, JS for years until I came across different IDEs in 2014 LoL changed my life overnight!

Not a full-time programmer but I do use the knowledge for work on occasion. In my spare time I read API's instead of the news, play around with Arduino & Raspberry Pi boards, hacking the kids' toys and random household appliances...