About Me
My first exp with programming was basic on a Apple IIe what fun that was, did some Turbo Pascal and Turbo C in high school then went on to join the Navy. After spending 4 years as an Electronics Tech ( ET ) in the Navy I decided I wanted to work with computers instead.
Having built every computer I had owned up to that point I ended up working at computer store doing tech and sales for a while, then at a regional ISP doing tech support where I learned to hate winsock with a passion. This was around 1995 and was the when I first got started in linux. Got back into programming doing scripts for a 16 line WorldGroup BBS I ran for a few years, Automating Major Mud was pretty popular on the BBS/Gaming arena back then. From there I went on to work for Mindspring just before they got bought out by EarthLink doing more ISP support. From there I moved to Go2Net working for there Authorize.net department handling support calls.
At that point I was pretty familiar with linux running and maintaining my own website and a few other websites over DSL doing some minor programming in perl. Don't remember who it was at the time but I was trying to get something done in perl and they suggested php, From that day in 1999 I never looked back.
Did some consulting work here and there a dating site, a shopping site that never launched ( the guy had no idea what a launch schedule was at all ) and currently BrokerBin.com.
Most recent major PHP related even in my life would be a article on Flash and PHP Sockets published in the August 2004 issue of PHP|Arch.
Here are some of the more interesting things I have played with over the past years
* Postfix admin
* Live PDF and Graphic Creation
* Replicated database support for load balancing
* Advanced session management
* Template design and management
* Advanced MySQL processing
* Excel to MySQL importing
* Advanced Excel auto detection
* Mysql and Email integration
* Mysql and DNS integration
* Advanced Flash/PHP
* Flash XML socket methods
* PHP Socket server and client work
* Altigen administration
* Altigen Integration - Realtime call reporting
* Email parsing and management
* Soap Client/Server
* Javascript
* Dynamic HTML
* AJax ( mostly with xajax library )
* Apache
* Redhat Enterprise, Fedora and Centos administration
* Timeclock integration
* Xen Virtual server, BrokerBin.com's whole dev enviroment is run across 6 virtual servers on a single xen system.
* Microsoft Exchange Integeration, via PHP LDAP Authentication
Some Open Source projects I am invovled in to one extend or another
* Zend Framework, Zend_Log maintainer, Manage the sandbox, chat and pear server
* Xajax, couple minor suggestions, bug reports
* PHP in general, various bug reports mostly for pdo
Want to view some of my work, visit http://www.cyberlot.net/demos/ for some very basic demos or http://chat.cyberlot.net for my php socket server based flash chat room.
