Tech

CV Extract

Programming Languages/Formats/etc (Chronological)

• [1990] C : on first-name terms
• [1991] Visual Basic : Survivor
• [1993] Pascal : Fondly nostalgic
• [1994] C++ : Was once the cheapest C++ programmer in England
• [1996] SQL : My true first language
• [1997] Perl : Veteran
• [1997] BASH : Don't leave home without it
• [1998] HTML : XHTML was the best one
• [1999] XML : DOM & SAX
• [1999] Javascript : Original bare-browser, fairly handy with jQuery
• [2000] Java : I can read it, but I'm not sure how much I can write any more
• [2001] PHP : There are a lot of things that it was fairly good at ...
• [2002] XSLT : Because everything that can be expressed in XML will be
• [2005] Python : Well-travelled
• [2010] Puppet : Lots of syntax, just run it in order and stop being clever
• [2013] Go : Don't try any of that functional stuff here
• [2013] Ansible : Running it in order, very sensibly
• [2017] Rust : Currently learning
• [2021] Lua : Because I got tired of doing all the scripting in Python

Databases

• [1988] Superbase : Someone else must have heard of it
• [1992] Paradox : Still a favourite
• [1995] dBase III : Universal (at the time)
• [1997] Btrieve : Only on Netware
• [1999] Postgres (v5, maybe?) : Good fun
• [2001] MySQL : Well, everyone has at one point or another ...
• [2003] Oracle : Never again
• [2005] Oracle : Damn you!