I started out in 98/99 writing a modificiation for the game Half-Life. I knew sod all back then, I just went to the local PC World and forked out ~£80 for Microsoft Visual C++. I played around with that for a year or two getting used to programming. I could have sped this time up had I bothered to pick up a book, but I was young and too lazy to read.

When I hit 17/18 the amount of time I put into programming seriously got reduced, I was too busy working, drinking and having fun. This continued untill I was about 20/21 when I decided it was time to take my programming hobby seriously.

I first did a year in College to get myself back into education then I spent 3 years in Uni where I got my first class Software Development Degree :)

I then left Uni (about the same time Adam left his web-dev job) and we decided to get together and try to make something of our skills. So here I am now :)

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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.