More Telling Coding Portfolio

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Coding Portfolio — A list of programs I've written and now recall. There are lots, organized first by where I was. (246)

Highland High School — I learned to program in the IITRAN Language using paper tape submitted for remote batch via model 33 teletype. Paper tapes may still exi (368)

Purdue University — I programmed various computers at Purdue. I remember them because each one had a different programming language. (67)

Tektronix — I worked for two separate labs, Systems and Cybernetics first, and then Computer Research where I filled two different postions. (776)

Home Computing — I've always had some kind of computer at home, first dial-up, then some stand-alone computer. Programming at home has always been for fun. (163)

Knowledge Systems — Reid Phillips founded a company around Smalltalk after learning about it as a salesman. I joined, worked for their client in California, but (148)

Wyatt Software — I jumped from research into commercial software development. Hired as a Smalltalk expert, I felt compelled to deliver on that promise. Loose (268)

Cunningham & Cunningham — When I wasn't on-site with clients, I worked in my Multnomah Village office usually exploring the emerging web or using it to promote my eme (319)

IBM Consulting — The center of Smalltalk activity moved to IBM. I thought I should too. Although I traveled to a client site every week, I can't remember wri (103)

Unix Administration — I've written lots of programs that serve only to aid my understanding of the servers I run on the internet. (34)

Microsoft — I kept a second home in downtown Redmond and spent every other week there. Working for the Patterns & Practices group, first as a consultant (171)

Eclipse Foundation — I helped found the Portland office where Bjorn Freeman-Benson and I would focus on the developer community side of Eclipse. (153)

AboutUs — AboutUs hosts a wiki with articles about every other site on the internet. The founders loved domain names and loved wiki. There must be a c (143)

Citizen Global — Founded by sustainability focused documentary filmmakers, this company set out to invent the co-creation of video as a means to tell the glo (78)

Nike — I accepted the one-year position as Nike's open-data fellow. My proper title was "Code for a Better World Fellow" and was modeled on "Code f (165)

New Relic — This company instruments web servers with probe software that reports important events and routine measurements to a cloud-based temporal me (225)

Brainstorm Interview — Portland Monthly and OMSI collaborated together to create BRAINSTORM, a joint effort in showcasing Oregon's top 12 innovators. [http://www.p (245)

Gadget Basement — Scott Hanselman stopped by Ward Cunningham to hang out, and discovered Ward's treasure trove of electronics, software, soldering guns and we (94)

Pascal — I came to know Pascal in college after I had learned how to write a compiler. I read the source for Wirth's self-hosted CDC 6000 compiler ea (313)

Smalltalk — I learned Smalltalk after having dug deeply into Lisp in the course of studying VLSI tooling. I read the self-hosted reference implementatio (62)

Javascript — I saw Javascript as a grandchild of Smalltalk but without all the optimizations made possible by thinking explored in Self. This all happene (187)