Who is this Coder Steve?[edit]

Background[edit]

What experience and background does he have that applies to the stuff he edits or writes?

He's just some guy with a great wife, kids and grand-kids who's done all sorts of things and lived all sorts of places– from sailing and diving on shipwrecks to timberline skiing and hiking; from shipping clerk and digging ditches to running a couple of successful small businesses. He pretended to be a photographer for a short time. He's lived all over the Western US (including a Pinto station wagon for a while, then a pickup camper, and eventually a sailboat) and, temporarily, a few places in SE Asia.

He's a Christian, mostly, (but not always a good example of one), although he spent most of his time so far in various aspects of the software development industry. Much of that was in Radio and TV Newsroom software, a bunch in Medicare/Medicaid and health insurance, and now in Manufacturing, all of which was mostly split between Unix/Linux development and MS Windows user-land. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/codersteve/)

Computer related experience[edit]

2019 to present Software Developer/SysAdmin/DBA

2008 - 2018 Software Developer DOD security clearance. (it expired last year, I think).

2001 - 2008 Realtor, broker, property developer

1885 to 2001 Radio and TV Newsroom software shipping clerk, tech support, field support in SE Asia, QA, supervisor.

1981 to 1984: College, COBOL developer, Honeywell 3200 system operator with 256K of Core RAM, four 5MB disk drives, 4 or 5 9-track tape drives, and about 1000 square feet. Also an IBM 360 with 2 disk drives, 1 tape drive and several card punches.

Christian Experience[edit]

tbc...

SCUBA[edit]

tbc...

Sailing[edit]

tbc...

The Wife[edit]

She keeps Steve on the right track (as best she can– he can be a bit headstrong). tbc...