My Tech History #Part1

First thing I learned as a kid about coding was HTML and some extremely basic level of PHP. In the beginning I wrote all the code in browser to some textarea which didn't have any kind of syntax highlighting or anything else you would hope from a code editor. Place where I hosted my "sites" was a hosting provided by a finnish tech magazine Mikrobitti - only for subscribers.

Later web hotels and in somepoint I rented a VPS for hosting my websites - mainly because it was cheaper that way. Distro for my VPS back then was Debian.

In University I studied little bit Python, Java and SQL. Also some basics of C.

While I was still in University I had to go on-the-job training. Well, I decided to apply to a local mobile gaming company. The told me that they don't really have much time to teach me, but they can provide testing equipment. I self-studied Objective-C and how to build apps and games for iOS. XCode FTW!

Let's step back a little. Before XCode my experiences of code editors was the following:

• textarea in browser (no JS)
• dreamweaver
• ms word
• notepad
• nano (with syntax highlighting!)
• eclipse

So you could imagine that XCode was really cool experience for me back then!

While still in University I started my side hustle and registered as entrepreneur. I started to design, build and host websites for money. PHP+MySQL+LAMP was the tech stack I knew best and in some point WordPress came in to the picture. Oh yeah, and Adobe Photoshop for design work!

In my first actual job on IT I was building websites, and had to learn responsive design and jQuery. I didn't really know Javascript like at all! But hey, it was easy enough to create cool animated UI stuff with it! In my first job I also got my first touch with version control, git. I had no idea what I was doing, but I managed.

This was a good start for my first blog series, so let's see when I will release the #Part2, stay tuned!