DeanQ’s Blog

In a nutshell, I was one of those curious teenagers in the 90’s that got sucked into the Web. I started out tinkering with HTML and Javascript back in 1997. Before I know it, I’ve been telling tales of how Web Development used to be back in the early 2000’s when I professionally started. Throughout the years I have…

Ventured into: Atari 800XL, DOS, Slackware, Windows, Mac OS, Palm OS, iPhone

Survived: Floppy disks, Zip disks, mIRC, eBay without the max bid feature, pre-Google searches, pre-Youtube, ICQ, multiplayer first-person shooters on Dial-up, rebooting Windows, tech bubble, rx8club.com, World of Warcraft

Absorbed: Javascript, PHP, Perl, Actionscript, Shell Script, Java/JSP, Python, Ruby, LUA, SQL

Tinker with: Flash, Photoshop, Open-Source projects, Frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails, Django, TurboGears)

Built up: Business Applications, Content Management Systems, Application Portals, API wrappers and libraries, IT Infrastructure, Print Collaterals, Posters, Homemade devices (shhh)

Code with: Hendrix, Incubus, Primus, Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains, Hed P.E., Nirvana, Urbandub, Damian Paniki, Junior Kilat, Hoobastank, Rage Against the Machine, 311, The Killers, Strunz & Farah, and many more

Still play: Guitar, Bass, Drum practice pad, Find a po-po with Valentine One, Drinking games, Muay Thai, Sarcasm, Disassembling anything

A big fan of: Apple, TechCrunch, 2Advanced, Buakaw