I welcome you to codeexplode.com blog which aims to publish my ideas, rants, and thoughts about the software world.
Let me start by telling you a short story about myself. My name is Noj, I have been interested in computers since my Dad bought us a first computer when I was about 15. My Dad is the CEO of one of africa’s largest plumbing companies Trident Plumbers (yeah I built the site). He wanted me to be in the plumbing or the construction game when I grew up. When I started at University of New South Wales, I was pursuing Civil Engineering for the first semester.
I met an awesome lecturer by the name of Maurice who was taking ENGG1811 – Computing for Engineers class. The course involved a lot of programming and I realized that while everyone else in my class was going O_O on the whole programming ’stuff’, It was all making sense to me, and I kept on getting full marks in labs and tests. My colleagues would usually come to me for assignment help, and I would show them around my code. (not let them copy though)
After the first semester was over, and one evening I thought, may be I was more passionate about code than I was about buildings or pipes. Talked it through my family and changed my course to Computer Science. Since then I have never looked back. Software is awesome!
In my uni years I was excited making making cool stuff dance around on the screen. I started learning Flash on my own by reading kirupa.com tutorials. Used to do my wacko experiments, making simple animations, simple games. Met some awesome friends at uni who were into serious learning rather than just hanging around.
At the 3rd year I started working with AELP (Adaptive e-Learning Platfrom) which is a research project at UNSW. There I started my first proper paid job building a google map like tool, but for visualizing high-res cells. (I gotta tell you the brain cells at 100X magnification make up for some good wall papers).
After uni finished, I got a new job at RocketBoots (yeah I built the front-end for that site as well), which is still my current job. I work as part of a great team, doing Flex or Web front ends, sometimes working with coldfusion, java or even some php backends.
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Hmm. I just checked out your dads website. The navigation bar at the top is weird.. the active region of the button runs away from the mouse:|.
Lol! its not a bug its a feature. It doesn’t exactly try to run away but positions itself at the top with an animation and increases the opacity to full. Is it that bad ?