RyanBates

last edited June 26, 2007 23:01:39 (74.139.159.186)
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CocoaDevUsers - been Cocoa-ing for a few years now.

Profile

  • Email: rbates (att) artbeats (dott) com
  • AIM: rbates (mac.com)
  • Born on May 15th, 1984
  • Currently lives in the outskirts of Myrtle Creek - a small town in southern Oregon
  • Hobbies:
    • Programming (of course)
    • Playing Guitar and Piano
    • Video Gaming
    • Bowling
    • Juggling
    • Unicycling

I first gained interest in programming when I turned 11. After attempting to learn C (why did I start there?) I gave up and decided to create a personal website in HTML. A couple years later I learned to create dynamic web-pages through scripting, first by using an uncommon language called Web DNA, and then later learning PHP and MySQL.

I started playing around with RealBasic around the year 2000 and started learning Cocoa shortly thereafter. I am sold on Cocoa, it has been the most enjoyable programming environment that I have ever experienced.

Current Projects

  • An inner-office messaging application (cross between e-mail and instant messaging).
  • A pluggable batch file processing utility.

Whoa, sorta creepy how similar you are to me... I started off in HTML, then C, then RB, then Cocoa, and I unicycle, juggle, play piano too... haha --KevinWojniak

Cool, I wonder if juggling is a popular hobby for many computer programmers? There were four club jugglers at the campus bash party at WWDC 2004 which I thought was interesting. -- RyanBates

Is it because of the ability among most to analyze information (math, geometry, etc) quickly, and good reflexes that we programmers are known for? Ah, I kid, I kid. -- JasonTerhorst