When I see myself 12 years back, I was simply a .NET developer/ Web developer and nobody knows me in the world only few people I was working with and my family. I started working on SharePoint in 2001 and never know that one day more than 10000 people around the world know me respect me and care about me. It does not make sense but truly this because of SharePoint.
VERY first tech job was selling / modifying PC-based accounting software, coded in “Business BASIC”, but that didn’t last. While going to school (second college stint – I was a muscian prior), I took a job as Computer Operator at a small (50 employee) health insurance company, running DEC PDP mini computers. That was 1986. Before I was done with school I was their lone developer. After getting done with school they sent me to training and I became the System Manager of what was now a VAX/VMS installation. I’d read *all* of the VAX manuals on the 4-foot wide, 6-foot high bookshelf in my office. Then we were bought up by a shop running IBM mainframes and my VAX/VMS knowledge went out the window 🙂
Over the years I’ve worked with minis, mainframes, PCs, have coded in a bunch of “known” languages (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, VB, Java, JavaScript, etc) …and a number of proprietary languages, environments.
I’ve been heavily involved with Lotus Notes since mid 90’s. My employer, like most, uses the MS Office suite, so it makes sense to get into SharePoint. I’m trying to learn all I can about SP2010, and also diving into SP2013, Azure, Office 365, Access 2013 / Access Services, etc., etc. SO much to learn… LOVING IT!
