December 26th, 2003.
North Korea has finally made its move. An armored column of bicycle-riding corpsmen, thirty strong, approach the South Korean border. The fragile time of peace has come to an end.
It's World War III all over again.
Close the airports!
I was just a kid back then. A sniffly-nosed little goober who ate his Cheerios straight from the box. The crunchy oats were mine; I wasn't going to let anyone have them. Especially not some guys riding robosaurs all across Asia.
I booted up King's Quest I and got to work.
Yeah, I got it all. I've learned from the best.
You know, when I was young, we had these things called libraries. Repositories of mankind's greatest knowledge. Kids these days say the Web is the sum total of human experience. That some bits and bites and bobs on a computer screen are better than some dusty old tome.
Maybe they're right.
But even if they are, I know what I know:
Twelve years of Ruby. I once killed a bear with it.
Twelve years of Ruby on Rails. Once you start riding those rails, you just can't get off any time you want.
One year of Dart. I built a business intelligence application with it, but I could never make her love me.
Countless generations of JavaScript, CoffeeScript. I can still remember how she confused this, that, and herself.
A lifetime of HTML5/CSS3. These are the techniques you need to survive in the world today.
So many more, left by the wayside. Java, C#, Python.
I miss you all...
Everyone but you, MFC. I haven't forgotten.
I'll never forget.
I did a stint in the Business Intelligence unit, once.
Our warehouse was brimming with data that demanded attention, but all we had to handle it was a rickety old gal called Ruby. She wasn't built for this kind of work, but then again who is?
We made the old girl work. We had to.
Hadoop finally showed up on his high-horse to show us how it was done, but by then I was already saying my goodbyes.
The time I developed a site to help parents eavesdrops on their kids social life?
Or the time I developed a web application to streamline a hospital's internal safety procedures?
Or the video sharing websites?
Oh, I've done it all, kid.
In a world like this, everything needs something.
And I'm the guy with the something.