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Hey there and welcome to my blog! I’m Jimmy Burnett, a software developer from Virginia. I’ve been in the software development industry for around 10 years now. In the mid to late 1990’s I started programming in Visual Basic 3.0 on my father’s PC at home up until Visual Basic 5.0. During this time period I also ran Linux (Slackware on floppy disks!) on my personal computer because I couldn’t afford to by Windows, so I ended up programming on my fathers Windows Machine and also in Perl on my personal Linux desktop. Eventually in 1998 I moved to Virginia and 12 years later I’m still programming in Windows and Linux. I’ve been fortunate to be able to program in both environments professionally during the last 12 years.

During the last 12 years I’ve worked in a few different industries to include Real-estate, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Civil Engineering, Manufacturing, Internet Marketing, and Military. Most jobs were start-ups during the 1999-2002 Internet bubble which unfortunately didn’t amount to anything. Desktop application development (for Linux and Windows) and Web application development are my areas of expertise. My programming focus is in Visual Studio .NET (VB, C#, C++) for Windows and C++,C# & GTK# for Linux and PHP (LAMP) for Web development.

Throughout my programming career I have been able to also learn other programming languages and technologies and sometimes it is necessary to integrate with these other technologies. Some of these technologies include Linux, PHP, Perl, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, CGI, Wed Development, mySQL, SQL Server, SOAP, ADO.NET, AS400 DB2, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Applets, Widgets, Wordpress, and Joomla. In addition to my .NET programming I have also been able to get extensive experience in the above technologies.

About this blog.
This blog is primarily be about everything programming related to include Web Development and Windows & Linux application development. I mainly cover PHP & Wordpress for web development and Visual Studio (C#) for Windows Application development and GTK/C# For Linux. I’m also the author of a few Wordpress plugins and a few free desktop Blogging tools such as CommentGator. (Check out my projects page.)

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