{"id":115,"date":"2006-03-16T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/03\/who-is-haydies-me-my-self-and-quite-possibly-some-one-else\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:44:05","slug":"who-is-haydies-me-my-self-and-quite-possibly-some-one-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/03\/who-is-haydies-me-my-self-and-quite-possibly-some-one-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Haydies? Me my self and quite possibly some one else."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaolin introduced him self, and said he had asked every one to do like wise. News to me mate :-P or did that slip my mind? Can’t see how it could but one never knows…<\/p>\n

So, any way, who the hell am I? I have known Shaolin for years, he might have some idea how many, I am on that old darknet site he mentioned, but do me and favour, and don’t look there, please? I look terrible and I’m ashamed :-P<\/p>\n

Like Shaolin I to started with the whole computer thing when I was little. The order is a little haszy, but I am fairly sure I had the TI 994A before the little old specy. Though my use of them was a little differant. True, I did for a while spend many hours typeing code to find out later it didn’t work…. but before long I was coding my own stuff. In basic on the TI, and z80 assembler on the specy, pascal and modual 2 to on the Amstrad CPC, 6800 assembler and C on the ST….<\/p>\n

TI, Spectrum, Comador, Atari ST, 386 and beyond, I have always live with a computer, though shockingly never games. My first consol was a ps2 and that is only 4 years old.<\/p>\n

After many years of bedroom activites I definatly should be ashamed of (all with a keyboard – and check this? no net connection) I emerged in the bright old world, a whole host of dead technology and languages no one has used since the romans under my belt, and windows gaining popularity.<\/p>\n

Fast forward, past VB, pal, and various noddy little things and I’m in to Delphi, oh my, was I in to Delphi. For 7 years I lived, breathed and probably bathed in the windows API and OOP. Gone was Delphi’s native event handlers, to slow, give me the raw message cue…. mutli threaded servers, no problem, n-tier CORBA clients… you name it, I did it.<\/p>\n