On this page, I attempt to explain who I am.
My name is Steven Byrnes. See my contacts page if you want to contact me.
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I have been programming, and working with computers, since the earth cooled. Or at least it seems that way. It’s funny; I usually don’t feel like an old timer. I know a lot of people who have been at it longer than I have, but when I think about it, I started programming (as a kid) over 30 years ago, I’ve been using Unix & Emacs for 25 years, and I’ve been using the Internet for 20+ years… Well, that makes me feel like an old timer.
I’ve worn many hats over the years in IT. I’ve work in small companies, as a consultant, and as a member of larger organizations. At one point, I had a dozen languages or more on my resume: everything from Perl and Emacs Lisp to C & assmebly (multiple flavors). Projects have ranged from embedded programming to web 2.0 applications & N-tier distributed database applications. In addition to getting my hands dirty programming, I’ve been a database administrator (Oracle and SQL Server), Unix administrator (mostly Solaris & Linux, but I dealt with most major flavors at one point or another), and, even, a Windows administrator. (Although I’m really really rusty in that.)
But enough about the tech… for more info, you can check out my LinkedIn page. (Which needs a lot more fleshing out.)
Interests
- photography, videography: these days, when I pick up a camera (excluding cameraphone), it’s a Canon DSLR, and I’m usually taking photos of my daughter.
- travel
- lots of reading: finance, economics, business, science & technology; computer-related interests usually limited to new stuff & research
- cooking: this is a relatively new one for me; I never really cooked before, but over the past half year I really have been trying out new recipes and learning
- astronomy, rarely: I keep an eye on space & astronomy stories, but I almost never look through a telescope anymore (and to think: I wanted to be an astrophysicist)
Years ago, I had a much longer list of interests on this page. It’s shorter now not because I have fewer interests, I just have less time.
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- coffee, tea, and other substances containing caffeine
- Mac
- Emacs
- the occasional cookie (chocolate chip just now)