Hi everyone, pleasure to meet you all. Little info about me: I'm a web developer and a writer. ...Not the kind of writer who sits in Starbucks and "writes a screenplay", the kind of writer that actually makes money writing and doesn't (always) smell like shame and desperation. I engage in epic battles with procrastination on a daily basis and I usually win. I joined Digital Point to make new friends, business partners, and if all goes well, to meet the love of my life. I've been told by a reliable source that a lot of very attractive-yet-lonely bikini models frequent this site; I sure hope that's true. I plan on having my brain cryogenically frozen after I die so that I can be revived in a young and totally awesome robot body. It's great to be here, hope to chat with some of you soon!
Welcome, .Mosey. You seem like an interesting character. Sure, you will find lots of members with avatars of scantily clad women, but they are all men behind the usernames.
Ashamedly, at the moment Windows 7 (there was a reason I needed it, although that has now expired and soon this laptop will too, so I'll be back to Linux once I find a new one worth buying), but yes that's my background and what I prefer as a desktop, development environment or for any other purpose really. I did get myself a new Linux system recently, a Raspberry Pi. An absolutely fantastic piece of kit. Using it as a crawler/data processor at the moment. It's amazing how responsive it is, although I am comparing it to my truly awful crap[lap]top. What parts of webdevelopment are you into? (I enjoy coding in PHP a lot, I'm a pretty awful visual designer, but I do try.)
Well, at least you're on Windows 7. I had the pleasure of trying out Windows 8 and it was... well, awful. Incredibly awful. Even by MS standards. There's just no getting away from them sometimes, I have a small partition I can dual boot into should I need Windows 7 (like for the Adobe Suite, the occasional game, etc.) Neat, I've heard a lot about the Raspberry Pi. Such a cool little unit. Mostly in the form of, "Hey guys, I just bought a Raspberry Pi, what can I do with it?" Glad to see you found a productive/real-world application for it. I use "web development" as kind of a catch-all phrase. I'm not talking about coding something crazy from scratch or anything, I just mean to say that I build and maintain websites. When someone asks you what you do for a living, it's an easy reply. I imagine most of the people on this forum involved in internet marketing understand that explaining what you actually do can be troublesome, haha.