When I was about 13 years old my father brought home a computer that his boss was about to throw out. It was a Zenith 8088 clocked at 4Mhz (with a turbo button that upped it to a blazing 8Mhz). Shortly after giving it to me I discovered my calling in the form of GW-BASIC.

Over the years I slowly upgraded my language skills (and my hardware). I worked my way through QuickBASIC, QBasic 4.5, and QB7.1, Visual BASIC, C++, Perl, and PHP. College brough me into the world of .NET and with that VB.Net and C#. Now my work provides me with the opportunity to develop in .NET, Java, Python, and JavaScript.