Hello from Chesterfield, MO

Discussion in 'Introductions' started by Stephen Veit, Jul 13, 2013.

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    Hi! This is Steve here. I love computers and the Internet and how they can be used to connect people and make theirs jobs easier.

    I have been writing software for over 30 years, creating many cool things like a realtime networked flight simulation, a personalized learning newspaper, a visual truck-tracking system, an HTML website generator, and custom UDP/IP protocols.

    My first job was fixing Apple ][ computers for a distributor.

    Currently I am building affiliate sites and a private blog network around investing.

    Ask me a question if you get stuck in any of these computer languages or technologies:

    Javascript
    Node.js
    AJAX
    Ruby on Rails
    C++
    C
    HTML5
    CSS3
    HTTP
    MySQL
    PostgreSQL
    Amazon Web Services

    Thanks!
     
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    liamwli Well-Known Member

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    I couldn't help but noticing PHP isn't on that list...

    Anyhow, welcome to DP :) I hope you become an active and Established member :)

    Liam
     
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    Hi Steve,

    That is a massive amount of experience. Great to have you onboard. The learning newspaper sounds cool. Well, in fact, all those projects do. :D I look forward to seeing you around DigitalPoint.
     
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    Liam,

    Good catch. I have programmed in PHP. It is just not one that I have not done much in.
     
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    Thanks Ryan! The reason I mentioned these is to give people ideas of what is possible. I feel I have a lot of experience and talent and I want to find more ways to help people using these.
     
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    Hi there,
    Is Steve the short name of Stephen? I am a bit confused ;)
    In addition, had you experience in manipulating server/vps/hosting/cloud except programming/software?
    Welcome to the Top webmaster forum!
     
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    liamwli Well-Known Member

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    NO! People that are Stephen generally hate being called Steve...
     
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    My Mom, brothers and sisters all call me Stephen. My friends call me Steve. I respond to either one. One thing I do not like is having my name spelled "Steven".
     
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    Helen,

    Hi. Steve is the short name of Stephen.

    I have experience setting up and maintaining virtual servers. Mostly in AWS. I currently and responsible for a system with 13 AWS EC2 instances.
     
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    English name is interesting! ;)
    I personally like to call people by short name, especially the initial letter, for example, I might like to call Stephen, Steve as S, and I also like people to call me as H (Helen).
    But, will all/most people like others to call them as the initial letter of given name? or will I offend them if I do so?
     
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    I tried google to find the word to describe a person who owned all kinds of skills, google told me that was "Jack of all trades", is it correct?
     
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    Hi i am newbie on this forum and i want to say welcome all the members who newly join this forum. I hope you will share the valuable stuff of information with us.

    I am familiar with Html, CSS, Javascript, ajax, jquery, php.
     
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    H,

    That is an appropriate term that I don't mind being applied to me. However there is another expression: "Jack of all trades, master of none." I don't think that applies to me because for most of my "trades" (skills) I feel I have mastered. This is not to say I don't continue learning, because that is how one remains proficient.
     
    Stephen Veit, Jul 17, 2013 IP