Semi-amateur software developer. Rage-fueled HCI geek. Lover > Fighter. Python > Java, unless you want to get paid.

I support my nefarious activities by working as a web application programmer at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Bioinformatics is a big new field that I don't have a whole lot of interest in, but on the other hand I'm getting paid to code and I'm only four or five degrees removed from people who are actually saving lives. So that's pretty neat.

I am way into Dwarf Fortress at the moment. I used to play Dungeon Crawl and NetHack. Gotta love them ASCIIs, I guess.

I have taught myself Python, Perl, Java, Javascript with varying levels of completeness, and learned C++ and general OOP magic via a class and some work experience. I also did some machine learning work in my larval stage. Although I haven't learned every single feature, I grok Python in fullness; it was my first language, and this mighty tome has irreparably biased me toward the Pythonic way of doing things, even in cases when I know it to be wrong.

I mostly work with Java and the Play! and Spring Frameworks these days. Sadly, I prefer application programming to web programming by a wide margin, but that's not where the money is these days.