Hi, my name is Sheldon Juncker and I'm a programmer. :) While I love programming in general, there are two areas that I enjoy the most:

• Language development
• Web development

I've played around a good bit with creating my own programming languages, and I got pretty far with a little toy language that I called Coal. I've used tools such as Flex and Bison, but I've also built my own lexers and parsers (although I doubt that they were very good).

And for web development, I'm almost always working on some project related to PHP, JavaScript, CSS, or a combination of the three. In recent years, however, I've discovered that I enjoy working with web development technologies more than with web development itself. Creating web applications can get boring (but I still enjoy it) while creating tools used in web development doesn't. I've had a lot of fun working on my own ORM and MVC tools in PHP.

But you get the idea: I like programming. Not much of a surprise since you're reading this on a website primarily for programmers.

Apart from programming, there are a couple of other things that I enjoy: hiking and reading. Fortunately, the two can usually be combined. (If there was a way to program during hiking trips, I'd be set!)

I've done a lot of hiking on the Appalachian Trail and at some point I would like to begin a northbound through-hike of the trail. Technically, it won't be a through-hike because I'll skip the first ~250 miles which I've already hiked. If you ever meet me out there on the AT, my trail name is Jundar.

I also read a lot of books (even ones that aren't on programming). I'll ready just about any good book, but I especially enjoy works of Fantasy/Science Fiction or books about theology and philosophy. C.S. Lewis is a favorite author of mine, both for his theology and fantasy.

Apart from that, there isn't really all that much interesting about me. (And that's assuming that you found this interesting! ;)

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