Hello, this is my demo

Hi. My name is Herb. I moonlight as the everyman of Lost Astronaut Studios. This is my nifty demonstration of various software skills. I'm a capable developer. I've been making software since I was 4 years old.

This is what my first program looked like:

 10 PRINT "ROBOT"
 20 GOTO 10

I've spent many, many years doing LAMP stack development. I manage and author digitally all the time.

I've been doing the web a long time. Since the beginning, actually. I've worked in PHP since there were no formal frameworks. Come with me on a journey into the evolving history of web design.

Here is my Visual CV, if you'd like to see a nice brochure-like version of my resume.

Below you can see my breakout by language and specialization

By language and specialization.

The one thing I don't have an example of is webservices written with pure Microsoft stack. I do not like Microsoft stack. I use Visual Studio C++, and WINAPI though. I also have used C# from time to time.

I also don't demo any pure Java stack because Java is Linus Torvalds' least favorite programming language, and that's true of me too. However, I have in the past worked in J2ME (Nokia phones) and J2EE (Eclipse, NetBeans) and Processing.org.

I do not have an example of ColdFusion because it costs money, and the open source versions aren't that interesting, and though I feel a wierd sense of sadness when reading CFML sites, I just cannot bring myself to demonstrate it here. However, twice in my life for a total of 12 months combined, I have worked with a site written using ColdFusion. Of all internet websites, 82.5% = PHP, and ColdFusion represents a very small 0.7%.

Code samples are available on my github in Visual C++, PHP/MySQL (MVC), and a couple of other languages

Thanks for taking a look at my demos.

Stupid Programmer Job Interview Tests

I put them here so you don't have to waste my time further. A pointless hoop that wastes precious minutes I'll never get back, nor will you.

Here is a cool one I did answering a boring question. See if you can detect the subliminal message.

Here are the tests I've taken for other potential employers

Here are some other professionals who agree that your interview test sucks

Demo Are Chives

My original epic programming projects, The Isles OLC (my first website published in 1996, for software that was released in 1993) and NiMUD

If you want to view my old demos, peering back into my college days when I was involved in college radio and hactivist acts of art sabotage while hanging out at Warhol's art school, dating back to 2002, you can do so here: web way back timeline, or you can pick from the list below

Selected wayback timeline points. I changed my site quite often back then.