My first computer was a Sinclair zx81 ~1981, and I've been hooked ever since.

Graduated from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1990 with B/TEC HND in Computer Science, and proud of it!

Am a pragmatic developer who's been working "Agile Development" before it had that name, developed Object Oriented COBOL code on a Mainframe (1993) and written an XML parser, in COBOL(the only language available to us in the company at the time) on an AS/400 (1997, and yes, it was so SLOW!!! But, management were happy and the system was a success).

Am old enough and to recognise the marketing driven) nature of selling software that all it can ever do is changes a 1 to a 0 and vice versa, and that what modern marketers call "cloud computing" is just a Computer bureau from the 1960/70s with Moors Law applied.