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In 2006 I went back to school at Ryerson University to learn Computer Programming. I received my Certificate in Computer Programming Applications in May 2008, putting some academic credentials behind my passion for technology, that I’ve had since high school, where I learned Fortran and how to program a Wang 2200B business mini-computer.
While I was in night school getting that formal education (2006—2008), I took a day job selling and fixing computers in a “big box” technology retail outlet, near Yonge and King Streets in Toronto, which kept me current on the latest hardware, applications programs, and operating systems.
As a computer applications programmer, I go back to the early 90s, starting with Microsoft QuickBASIC , Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. I went from there to starting to set up as an independent solution developer of applications programs and utilities for the IBM OS/2 operating environment. But OS/2 failed to make an impact, and by the time Windows 95 came out, WorkFrame/2 and IBM Visual C++ were no longer relevant development tools. I spent the next dozen years immersed in church work. I was ordained in 1988 and also work as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
Now I develop programs in Java and C#.Net. I know the ins and outs of Windows XP,Vista, and Windows 7, Microsoft Office XP, 2003 and 2007, and 2010, shell programming using Bourne and BASH, and BASH under Linux. I have been a Slackware Linux user since 1995. I don’t own a Mac, but I have worked on them, and installed both operating systems and application programs on them. I am also familiar with Ubuntu, BeOS, and vrtualization technoloies like Vmware and Virtual PC.
When I’m not working on computers, I am camping with my wife, hiking somewhere beautiful, wondering what my sons and grandchildren are doing, or walking our beagles by streams, in the woods of Clarkson.
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