I guess since you’re reading the About page here, you want to know a little about me. I’m a Software Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. I received my degree from Tri-State University, in Angola, IN. Recently Tri-State changed their name to Trine University, so that may be more familiar.
When I graduated college, I took a job as a Software Engineer for a company in Toledo, OH. I worked there for a little over two years (Three, including a year I spent co-oping with them.) programming in C, C++, Visual Basic, and many of the different web languages. I also was in charge of re-designing and re-developing their website from the ground up. Throughout the rest of my employment there I spent my free time doing search engine optimization and search engine marketing for the company’s site.
In the beginning of the forth quarter in the 2008 year, I left the company for an engineering firm in Plymouth, MI; where I currently am working. At my new place of employment, I develop applications using C, C++, and more recently, I am starting to take up new responsibilities involving electrical design and Controls programming.
Web development was a hobby of mine while I was in school and it still is today. Not only is web development my hobby, but more importantly the scripting language PHP, or PHP: HyperText Preprocessor. I love the openness of PHP and how it doesn’t discriminate between the hardcore coder, and the programming noob. PHP is a viable solution for any individual or company.
Throughout the years I have been heavily educated and experianced with PHP and its proper coding standards. Along with PHP, I also have strong experience with MySQL, MSSQL, HTML, JavaScript/AJAX, CSS, XML, Flash and other web languages. I want to use this opportunity to help other PHP programmers like myself.
In my free time I enjoy working on my own network of websites. I built a content management system for writers. This site was called the Informative Post and grew exponentially since it was first launched in October of 2007. The Informative Post is written in PHP using the Zend Framework my own PHP libraries and MySQL for the database needs. I did it previously with the Zend Framework, but it caused too much lag to the site that I needed to remove it. I since sold the site and have moved on. It grew too quickly for me to maintain with a full time job. It was fun while it lasted though.
I also have developed and currently maintain a few sites that focus on affiliate marketing of certain niches. These sites were also done with PHP.
Obviously, I am a huge evangelist of the PHP programming language, which brings me to this site. I decided to create this site to build a community of PHP users like myself to bounce ideas off and to help eventually troubleshoot each others bugs.
- Douglas Brown
