Hi, I thought I'd start my blog by introducing myself. I'm Steve Hiner. Christian, father, family man and programmer.
I started writing code back in grade school. It was in the early 80s so I was about 10-12 years old at the time. I believe it was on a TRS-80 and I'm sure it was some form of BASIC. A while back I ran across an old audio cassette tape with one of my first programs on it, a sci-fi text adventure game. I remember my mom helping me read through a programming book while sitting at our home PC (a Heathkit system my dad built - with 128KB RAM and dual 5-1/4 floppies - at the time that was quite a system).
Fast forward to college where I got a Civil Engineering degree. While getting the degree I started taking every programming class I could get credit for. Because of learning in the college of engineering my first serious programming was in FORTRAN77.
After graduation I worked as an engineer for a couple years but got bored with it. When my current boss offered me a job programming I jumped at the chance. That was 10 years ago.
Now I'm a Windows developer focusing on .Net technologies. Most of my time is spent writing the UI to interface with hardware the company develops. I've worked on everything from a stock trade sorting app to a machine vision app. As systems integrators we do a little bit of everything so projects are always new and interesting.
I've become something of a PowerShell fanatic lately so I'm always looking for problems I can solve with a bit of PowerShell scripting. I'm really blown away by Microsoft's new shell - it really is an amazing piece of technology.
Well, that's me. Who are you?
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