Lost Love - Not For Me!
Jose Fuentes writes about Lost Love.
I couldn't agree more with everything he had to say!
At one point in my career I thought the grandiur and financial enticement of taking a traveling consulting position would be the best position for me.
Luckily before I accepted any such type of position my employer at the time needed me to travel to a client site out of state to do some consulting for just one night and two days.
Spending the night alone, away from my family, that one night, proved to me very quickly that I would not be able to handle that kind of separation!
Ironically, a few weeks later, I even went on a interview that was in the next major city over, and would have required a 90 minute commute each direction. The interview itself showed that I really would not want to have to sacrifice that much time every day on the road and away from my family.
All these things considered, I hold a GREAT respect for all our service men and women who make that sacrifice! To do the things that our country must do! To protect our selves and our children from these terrorists! God bless and protect!
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.