Hi, my name is Sean Reynolds.
This is my first entry into a weblog ever. I am an American from Oklahoma. I went to Concordia University in Nebraska. I have a major in Computer Science and minors in Physics and Math. I have moved recently to London, and am working for a great company here named Viable Business Technologies. Owner, Nick Swan, is very laid back and easy going. I find it quite easy to settle in here in London. I have been going to Church here at a place called The Bible Talks, and have found that to be a good place to meet people here in London.
I have many jobs here at VBT. I am learning .Net for the first time and find it to be quite easy to learn, even quite fun. I have had experience in VB6 and C++. Learning C#, I felt like a kid in the candy store. I find functions which are quite powerful and easy to use. I also had experience in ASP. Now I am learning ASP.Net with ADO instead of ODBC. I find it to be easy to learn as well. Programming in a new language is like exploring a new country. With Visual Studios and .Net I think it’s like every corner I look around I see new functionality. All I have to do is enter a ‘.’ and I get a list of new roads I can go down. If you know anything about Computer Science the street signs .Net and VS gives you are quite clear and easy to read. When I have been programming in the past, I found C++ and other languages like Perl to be more like exploring a country blindfolded. The book was the only way we could learn. It was like someone telling you where to go, but you are stumbling around and can’t see where you’re going. Visual Studios and .Net allow you to test and explore with the help of the debugger to grow and learn the entire framework in much less time, very freely.
I have come from a background where Microsoft was evil. It crashed a lot in 95 and 98. It wasn’t as fast for applications and games as Linux because of the overhead for the environment. I always ran Windows just because no software designers for the applications I use often support Linux as much as Windows. After touching .Net for a couple days all that changed. I think Microsoft has really taken a step towards trying to play well with others by developing .Net. The other thing is the support for .Net will be there for tomorrow because it’s backed by Microsoft.
I look forward to exploring more as time goes on.