drclue

Some 30 years ago I toggled in my first program, watched the lights blink and I was hooked for life. As machines and Operating systems came and went, they instilled a pattern of programing that made the differences in things like CPM,DOS, Unix and windows largely a matter of skimming some documentation. Around 1994 when gopher was still a popular way of getting around, I got my first taste of the internet , and never looked back. Since I already had been coding in C/C++ for years , I continued to do so for the internet , where I expanded my cross platform classes to support my work with Sockets, Server plug-ins, CGI, database interfaces etc. One of my recent server projects provides a high capacity XML based middleware to MySql featuring forking , shared memory, and runlevel/init.d support. When Netscape came out with javascript I climbed on that band wagon as well, and today have one of the few frames friendly, cross browser (IE,NS,NS6,NS7,Firefox etc.) DHTML libraries available. I also do AJAX,SOAP,REST,WSDL and more. One of my favorite types of project has been basic-auth: authentication systems, composed of a TCP/IP Server that acts as a middle-ware to SQL. Another component is a Netscape (nsapi) server plugin. This system allows for token, date and IP based subscriptions to on-line materials.