( If you are curious as to why I'm 'AnOldMan' read here )
AnOldMan started programming in BASIC(Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
A family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
Many modern programming languages used for Web Development have their roots in BASIC. in 1981, and continued with FORTRAN(FORmula TRANslating)
A general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century. and COBOL(COmmon Business-Oriented Language)
One of the oldest programming languages, primarily in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. in his first year of college. After his second year - and a run-in with ASSEMBLERA low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices in which each statement corresponds to a single machine language instruction. eg: MOV AL, 61h - he changed his major to Accounting. Even then he ended up programming for statistics classes and learning Lotus 123A spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM). It was the IBM PC's first "killer application"; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment., dBaseThe first widely used relational DBMS. It was originally published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on ported to the Apple II and IBM PC under DOS. On the PC platform in particular it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years., and WordPerfectAt the height of its popularity in the early to mid 1980s, it was a dominant player in the word processor market, but has long since been eclipsed in number of users by Microsoft Word. anyway. ( remember those? ) He also participated in the original Microsoft WIN32 SDK(WINdows 32-bit Software Development Kit)
The grandfather of all current Microsoft Operating systems - used to build the first 32-bit version of Windows: Windows NT..
He graduated with a BA in Accounting ( cum laude(with honor)
An honor added to a diploma or degree for work that is above average. ), and a minor in Computer Science in 1992.
He worked the next 15 years in management, but never forgot his technical roots. He earned his MCSE(Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
A professional certification awarded by Microsoft. Individual certifications are awarded upon passing of one or more exams. The Microsoft Certified Professional program is designed for both IT Professionals and developers. in 2001.
His first web site ( this one ) went live in 2002. PHPNukeA Web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL originally authored by Franscisco Burzi. The system is controlled using a web-based user interface. ( WCMS ) was then chosen because a suitable WCMS(Web Content Management System)
A software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage Web Site content with relative ease. in .NET(dot NET)
A Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic WebSites, web applications and web services. could not be found that included a ForumAn online discussion WebSite where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. ( a feature he greatly desired ). The current iteration you are seeing now is custom code written by AnOldMan himself, with the popular phpBB(Php Bulletin Board)
A popular Internet Forum package written in the PHP scripting language. package integrated directly into the site's SKIN(Site Skin)
A custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a set of templates that wrap content, providing a consistent look and feel to the WebSite..
- PHP(PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)
PHP is a programming language used almost exclusively for creating software that is part of a WebSite. The PHP language is designed to be intermingled with the HTML that is used to create web pages. Unlike HTML, the PHP code is read and processed by Web Server software (HTML is read and processed by web Browser software.) and OOP(Object-Oriented Programming)
A programming paradigm using "objects" ‗ data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions ‗ to design applications and computer programs. - JavaScriptA prototype-based scripting language that is primarily implemented as part of a Web Browser in order to provide enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites.
- jQueryA cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
- CSS(Cascading Style Sheet)
A style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. and site templating - MySQL(MY Structured Query Language)
A relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
Available under the terms of the GNU GPL, it is the most widely used SQL on the Web.
It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter - My. QueriesConditions sent to a relational database system to retrieve the desired set of results. A query can be simple or extremely complex, depending on the nature of the data being sought. and Stored ProcedureA subroutine available to applications that access a relational database system. Used to consolidate and centralize logic that was originally implemented in applications.s - SiteCatalystOmniture's software as a service application, offering Web analytics (client-side measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage) and Google AnalyticsGoogle's software offering Web analytics (client-side measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage)
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Zend Development Environment
- SVN(SubVersioN)
A software versioning and a revision control system. Developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Repositories - Social Media Widgets
- XML-RPC(XML Remote Procedure Call)
A protocol for client-server communication that sends and receives information "on top of" HTTP. The data sent and received is in a particular XML format specifically designed for use with the protocol.
- DrupalA content management system and content management framework (CMF) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide, ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration. and DrupalA content management system and content management framework (CMF) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide, ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration. ModuleA (usually small) piece of software that adds features to a larger piece of software.s
- jQueryA cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. Mobile
- CVS(Concurrent Versions System)
Version control system software that keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers (potentially widely separated in space and/or time) to collaborate. Repositories - DomainA common network name under which a collection of network devices or services are organized (e.g., anoldman.com). and Network Administration
- LAMP(Linux Apache Mysql Php)
A software package that allows a user to run common GPL Web Server programs on the Linux operating system. ServerA computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a web server, or to the physical machine on which the software is running,s - WAMP(Windows Apache Mysql Php)
A software package that allows a user to run common GPL Web Server programs on the Microsoft Windows operating system. ServerA computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a web server, or to the physical machine on which the software is running,s - PERL(Practical Extraction and Report Language)
A high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
Perl gained widespread popularity as a CGI Scripting language, in part due to its parsing abilities./CGI(Common Gateway Interface)
A standard method for Web Server software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files.
Such files are known as CGI Scripts, the most common language for such scripts is PERL. - BASH(Bourne Again SHell)
A Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell (sh). Released in 1989, it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on Linux, Mac OS X and Darwin. ScriptAn ordered collection of commands used by a computer to make decisions.ing
