I wrote my first Basic program in 1983 on a Commodore VIC-20. I was in Standard 9 and a whole new world opened up for me. To this day I am still thrilled by the fact that you can create something from nothing by writing lines of code. In 1987 I discovered "C" and thought it to be the ultimate programming language. I started part-time contracting while in my second year of studying at Technikon. During my 3rd year of studies I switched to part-time studying to take on permanent employment. Following six years as a permanent employee, I switched to a consulting career in 1995 and in 2000 started my own consulting company. Although I have been using Microsoft Technologies predominantly throughout my career, the company's focus was on developing custom software making use of Microsoft technologies exclusively. During the last 14+ years almost all the projects that I was involved in were Intranet or Internet based applications. In the early days I made use of ASP with VB/Java Scripting and VB6 components. Recent projects were almost all developed using C#, ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server with the remainder developed as Windows Forms based applications using C#. I have experience working on small projects developed in only a month or two to projects developed over a number of years. On some projects I was the sole developer while on others I was the development lead for a group of developers. In almost all cases I was the designer / chief architect. I rely on self-study to keep up with the world of programming. I follow technology blogs and learn new technologies by experimenting and learning from books at Safari Books Online.