I realize I’m very late to the party but the time has come for me to enter the blogosphere. A number of factors have led to this, but these are probably relevant only to me! In considering what to post “out of the gate” I’ve determined that there are two questions I ought to answer: 1) who am I? and 2) what will I be blogging about?
In answer to the first question, and as the blog title confirms, my name is Bill Lodin and I work for a technical training company called IT Mentors. I consider myself first and foremost to be a software developer, although like most developers my job responsibilities often expand beyond that role. My personal history as a programmer began in the early 1980s with the Aim 65 and the Apple II+, and although I did not formally pursue computer science (I majored in Communication Studies) I found myself working with proprietary mainframe technologies by the late 1990s. I started working for Tim at IT Mentors in January 2000, teaching Java to mainframe developers in New York and New Jersey. Nowadays, I spend most of my time with .NET and related technologies, and I consider C# to be my current “native language.” In fact, in the unlikely event that you’ve heard of me before this, it is probably because of the in-person and web-based training I’ve done for Microsoft over the past five years.
On to question two, “what will I be blogging about?” The short answer is, “whatever strikes me as interesting but mostly it will probably be related to .NET and Windows development.” The long answer will have to wait for another post. No, that’s not meant to be a tease; I just feel that blog entries ought to be reasonably short and this one is already feeling long-winded!