Commodore 64<\/a>. At that time, we didn’t have that much money to spend so I was forced to write my own programs and games. This experience basically laid the basis for my profession as a programmer, later in life. <\/p>\nAs time passed, other computers came into our house-hold, mainly because of my dad’s job. Things started getting really interesting on the PC. MSDOS, PCDOS, various programming languages such as BASIC and Pascal, applications suchs as DBASE. <\/p>\n
In contrast to people who have only experience with graphical user interfaces such as Microsoft’s and Apple’s, because of the experience with the command-line, UNIX-flavoured operating systems don’t scare me.<\/p>\n
In the Present<\/strong>
\nCurrently, I am a programmer for a media company. The operating systems I work on are all UNIX-flavours. I can ‘speak’ most relevant (programming) languages available on those machines: C(++), Shell scripting, PHP, Javascript, SQL and HTML to name but a few. I have had the privilege to tinker with J2ME (that’s Java for mobile devices such as phones) as well.<\/p>\nI mainly implement the technology behind<\/em> web-sites, such as content-management systems and various types of server-to-server communication. Additionally, I write plugins for i<\/strong>nteractive v<\/strong>oice r<\/strong>esponse<\/em> systems such as Bayonne.<\/p>\nAdditionally, I also do system administration on few of those servers so I have grown quite interested in server security as well. <\/p>\n
In my spare time, because I’m cheap, I still<\/em> write my own software. If I’m out of suggestion, my girlfriend sometimes has a request for something. For the last couple of years I love to make everything web-based<\/em>. This fuelled my interest in web-based<\/em> user-interfaces and the technology behind it, databases, scripting and secure communications.<\/p>\nFuture<\/strong>
\nBeing a coder, my articles will mainly focus on programming. How to, and how not<\/em> to implement stuff safe and secure. Fact is, programs that rely on end-user input are by definition un-safe<\/em>. <\/p>\nKnowing the business-side of the chain so to speak, I have come to discover that a lot of companies, simply because of the lack of knowledge, money or time, fail to implement online systems secure enough.<\/p>\n
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Technology is going faster than most people can keep track of it and this has implications that some people might ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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