My name is Ian Morrison and I am a software/web developer and self-taught full-stack developer. With over a decade of development experience I have worked on each level of the development stack, from Servers and Hosting Evnironment to API layer and User Experience. How times have changed since then! How times continue to change! I love everything related to technology and the web. I'm interested in design and creation that comes with developing.
The landscape has dramtically change since the 90s. I started my career working in VB 6.0 with Visual Source Safe and SQL Server 7 as the backend. Servers where big and expensive and sounded like jet engines; workstation where big and beige and keyboards would be used as a defensive weapon if required to defend one's self. Buisness computers ran Windows NT 4.0 or Warp OS. I spent those days working image conversion applications in VB 6.0 with Visual Source Safe, burning CD's and Microfilm. Life was good when MS 2000 Pro and the first Visual Studio .Net Framework were released. Back then JavaScript was generally blocked on coperate computers and iframes where the bad alternative to using frames on website.
Long gone are the the early days of coding basic routines and simple software in VB 6.0.
Over the past decade I have worked on a number of legacy systems, databases, and servers. With each new itteration of Windows OS or SQL Server, I became involved in various projects to upgrade these systems. As new technologies became industry standards my expertise becames to bring existing system into the new era.
A life time of programming has risen and fallen in such a short period of time. Trecherous was the life of coder who invested the his time on the wrong technology.
Currently I continue my profession development in the .Net Framework, migrating legacy system into the new era. Converting VB applications to C#, upgrading .Net Frameworks. I found proficencies in breaking apart old enterprise applications and applying current standards and code to them. I guess I'm the guy that fits the square peg into the round hole (so to speak). I take an agile iterative approach to upgrading systems where replacement is too costly or disruptive to an organization. It has required me to draw upon my past experiences as well as maintaining current skills.
These past few years have truly been the golden age of web development a renaissance of coding not seen since the 70s; I do not beleive I have seen anything like this before.
I love everything related to technology and the web. I'm also very interested in design and creation. I am looking for a development position with a forward thinking IT company where I can continue to grow. I continue to prusue technological advancements where ever it maybe and spend my free time continuing my eduction on the following:
To see how I am progressing on these topics check out the Gilligan Project
