I received my first computer, a hand-me-down Apple II+, from my Grandaddy during the dawn of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s. I spent a good deal of my teenage years learning Applesoft BASIC and Fortran, writing GUI menus for 5.25" floppies and hacking hex values in Ultima player files. Since then, I've built predictive supply chain tools for the restaurant industry, iOS control applications for music performance and robotics and numerous PHP web applications for industries ranging from fashion retail and the arts to digital publishing.