{"id":14,"date":"2017-10-25T02:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:26:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">One of my favourite things is to write little programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">My first programming language was BCX &#8211; the Basic to C Translator.\u00a0 It writes like BASIC, but translates itself into pure C before compiling.\u00a0 This language required an awful lot of WinAPI, but I learned a lot in those years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">I have also programmed and coded in C#, VB.net, VB, VBA, VBS, Powershell, Javascript, Flash, HTML &amp; CSS, and my favourite, Autohotkey.\u00a0 I have hacked python scripts and java applications as well.\u00a0 I have written XUL addons for Firefox and Thunderbird.\u00a0 I have installed and configured Sharepoint Server 2010 several times, and have been admin for Sharepoint, Office365, Google Apps, Asterisk, FreePBX and Windows Domain.\u00a0 I have wired an entire office building with cat6, plugging all the sockets myself and setting up the rack with all it&#8217;s servers.\u00a0 I still do quite a bit of tech-support over the phone.\u00a0 I am mostly a Windows guy, but I have to work with Linux to a certain extent, and I only deal with Macs if I have to in order to help someone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Most of my programs are written in AutoHotkey, because it is so easy and fun.\u00a0 For an editor, I use Notepad++ and Notepad3.\u00a0 I typically write programs for myself and then share them if they are good enough for others to use. I also use my own programs, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/download\/textworx\/\">TextWorx<\/a> to write code, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/download\/iconus\/\">Iconus<\/a> to look at my dll and icon libraries that I build.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Now, I know that the idea of DonationCoder is that coders might receive donations, but I don&#8217;t really want any donations.\u00a0 A simple thank-you would be enough for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite things is to write little programs. My first programming language was BCX &#8211; the Basic to C Translator.\u00a0 It writes like BASIC, but translates itself into pure C before compiling.\u00a0 This language required an awful lot of WinAPI, but I learned a lot in those years. I have also programmed and&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/about\/\" title=\"About\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"Layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcmembers.com\/bgmcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}