Hey everyone, I'm glad I found you! I was watching a talk by Uncle Bob at Yale, had no idea there was a programmer group here in CT, and I wanted to introduce myself. I have an ulterior motive! ;)
Former Microsoft employee, was in ERP support, particularly OLTP performance tuning and release management. My biggest shipped product was Half-Life back in '98, and I've delivered a number of ERP solutions to customers in the partner space for years.
My background in programming comes from the mid 80s starting with Heath by Zenith computers, Apple ][ and then finally an IBM PC XT. I wrote a simple game in GWBASIC and then later on learned PASCAL at a local community college, but never followed that route, really.
In the 90s was a gamer and hosted LAMP based web sites for friends, moved into OOP with C# 1.0, although I'd dabbled in Java before that a little. These days I'm mostly writing CPP or Node with a heavy emphasis on data layer... thus my ulterior motive!
I've recently been working on continuous integration using MEAN on Azure Web App. I've been fairly successful with this, but I've been looking for people to chat with about writing custom Express server scripts to handle data API routing, views, and the like.
I live down in Norwalk, I moved here from Seattle about three years ago, I have a lot of family around Hartford (my dad was originally from CT, but met my mother in WA after Vietnam), and I'm fairly certain there's a few Stackpoles found on the Yale alumni rosters if you go back far enough, we're a colonist family from Wales originally.
Most of the friends I've made so far have been in the gaming community, particularly the League of Legends group in NYC, I've been looking for more, shall we say... "technical" friends, and I feel like I could learn so much from all of you! I'm going to make sure I check out the Meetup events and hopefully I'll meet some of you soon!
Thanks for reading,
Aaron Stackpole
Norwalk