evilrockhopper – developing your ideas into reality

And yes I do mean that in the geeky sense.

Who?

Welcome, my name is Daniel and I’ll be your guide for this journey, please keep hands and feet within the vehicle at all times.

So, another blog added to the (ugh!) blogosphere. Could there be anything left to say out there, any unique sentences left to be uttered? I’m sure there are plenty of combinations of words left to be spewed forth. To rephrase, are there any worthwhile sentences left to utter? My inner cynic says no but my literary heart says yes so let’s go with that for now.

What?

I’m a programmer by trade and by passion. I found myself consuming lots of material from the web for years and thought maybe now was the time to give something back. Plus I love hearing (and second best reading) the sound of my own voice. So the best of both worlds really. My craft has until recently focused solely on Java based websites. Fairly complicated sites to be fair, I currently run the tech team for the best looking business directory out there bview, and worked for the insurance comparison website simplybusiness (Phil the SEO man made me give him a link I swear).

This was honestly the first pickup that came up

But for fun in my spare time I’ve been focusing on the newer languages out there, Ruby On Rails (hereby RoR) being the main one. For a man who wouldn’t touch a language without a compiler (and ideally a virtual machine to run it in) I’ve branched out into the wonderful world of scripted languages. And decided for some things, I like it. My first foray was the whimsical (and occasionally NSFW) the pickuptruck, an answer looking for a question. It’s actually a great Twitter powered, user generated Web 2.0 extravaganza for pickup lines. I’ve even branched further into Flex, the dark programmer’s Flash tool with XML and everything! I’ll shortly be reporting on the app for that, needless to say it’s pretty “flash”.

Why?

I’m hoping this site becomes a useful resource for people to pick up advice on whatever technology I happen to be using this week. And a place for me to vent my spleen, my doctor said I should get the hosting on prescription to reduce my blood pressure.

As to the name of this blog, there are deep seated psychological reasons for it and I will be using my posts to exorcise demons and hopefully one day reveal the truth.