Introduce yourself!!!
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Chris - also from Canada. I've been into computers since before I have memories as I'd always use my neighbours or parents friends whenever we visited.I got my first computer when I was probably around 6 or so. IBM Aptiva, Pentium 166 with 16MB of ram with a 1.6GB hard drive. It had that awful Mwave combo modem/soundcard
From then on almost my entire life was/has been spent on a computer. I was on IRC by the time I was 9, and writing mIRC scripts when I was 11 and it kind of just escalated from there. My only other interest other than computers is cars as well as car audio. I compete in the former every year for sound quality. I guess I'm kind of interested in my wifey as well. And my dog.
I have lots of interests in this industry and there just isn't enough time in the day. Over the past 10 years or so I've started a few companies which are all doing well to this day (but not well enough that I am writing this on a beach somewhere). We do on site IT support for business (we primarily support mac/pc combo offices since no one else can) with one, we do webhosting with another (shared, vps, and dedicated). I do web design and we offer web development with another company. I love all things tech and this industry because it moves so fast that you can never really get bored.
I don't really do much personally, I spend most of the time working. The only games I play are MMO's and I've played them all and I've played them all to the end. Currently raiding in WoW while I wait for the release of WildStar and hoping that WildStar is as good as the betas have felt. Sometimes I go to movies.
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I'm Nicolas, a developer freelance from France. I'm 32, married and 2 children. I speak little (bad) English, that's why I participate little in the forum but I read you regulary
I develop websites and manage dedicated servers (Linux) since 2001, I developed mostly PHP but since I tasted NodeJS I make only JS
Now I develop multiplayers games and I addicted to caffeine and Spotify (as many developers ).Oh! ... and me too a day I will go live in Canada
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@Nicolab You should definitely visit Montréal! It is by far my favourite city in all of Canada (not that I have been to many places...). There is always something happening, some festival or other.
... plus they speak French, but Quebécois French, not Parisian French
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@Nicolab Bonjour! J'ai appris français pendant quelques mois, et de programmation pour moins. Française est belle, comme la programmation.
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@julian said:
You should definitely visit Montréal! It is by far my favourite city in all of Canada (not that I have been to many places...). There is always something happening, some festival or other.
... plus they speak French, but Quebécois French, not Parisian French
It seems yes, friends greatly appreciated Montreal and Quebec !
The accent of the Quebecécois is close to the accent of the old French -
@Kamal-Patel Hey!
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The user base (and developer base) is much younger for NodeBB than any of the other forums I've seen. Result: much more laid back. Faster development (or is that node?).
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@Kamal-Patel
Really? It seems much older than what I am use to. I'd say for the most part the developers and the users of most forum scripts land at an average of 18. But I could be way off on that assessment. It sure would be nice to take a survey to know for sure. -
@HolyPhoenix Here's more detail, from my admittedly limited experience. I'd be interested to see the younger ones you've run into.
Discourse: lead developer is 40-something, team average is 30-40. User base is the same average, although some younger.
Q2A: old lead developer is probably 40 or so, new developer is the same. User base is highly international with some language barrier because of that.
Vanilla: user base averages 30-35
Askbot: developer is 30s or 40s, not many frequent posters in community forum.
OSQA: not many regular users or development, so likely older
Moot.it: not sure, but could be younger. However not forum with similar functions as the rest
phpBB, vb, xenforo, etc: pretty large developer bases and user bases, spread between wide age ranges, averages 25-40 maybe? Lots of old school forum users though.
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Hmmmm.... Things have really changed then. I suppose that makes sense since forums are more of an old-school thing.
Lately I've spent all of my forum time with Mybb. I think many of their developers still tend to be quite young. I believe back when I started up using forums phpbb and several others (not the paid vb and IPB) were developed mostly by people 18-20. Maybe things have just aged more than I thought. Or maybe people appear younger to me online than they actually are in real life.
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It's kinda like when you graduate from college, then a few years go by and you're like "We're not old...are we???". Then a few more years go by and everyone who was 18-20 in your head is suddenly mid 30s. Mybb does seem a little bit more "hip".
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I'm from Ireland, I'm in High school at the moment I will be studying computer science this September at Uni. From a young age I have been running different communities on the web, some more successful than others. I have always had a passion for marketing and design, but decided that I want to study computer science because I always have ideas for new projects but I can't do much with my html skills
I have been learning php on codeacademy (to get familiar). If anyone recommends any php books let me know
K peace out bye
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I'm Brian. I guess compared to most of you guys I'm a bit of a lurker
I've just relocated to San Francisco from San Diego working as a developer for an enterprise community software company called Lithium. Kinda followed my girlfriend up here but I have family and friends up here too that I'm reconnecting with.
I've been in California my whole life but after graduating in '12 from UCSD (comp sci) I went travelling in Europe and Asia. I used to go to Mexico a few times a year in San Diego and I've even been to Canada! I went to Victoria though so not much experience in Canada... Yet.
I love making music and if it paid more that's what I would actually be doing, but a close second is programming and webby stuff. I've been online since around 96 when I was in middle school, putting up pages in angelfire and geocities, using cutting edge technologies like frames! I even started dabbling a little in JavaScript to make a fancy navigation bar. Little did I know how big this language was going to be...
I stopped doing that for a while though to meander off into studying music and biotech in community college, where I earned a degree in biotechnology production and a certification to be a bio technician, which I abandoned right after earning it :D. It did come to my aid, because that degree got me a job at Diageo in wine country for their wines division which was awesome. I started building computerized systems for them (as a technician, which was waaaay outside my job description), so I knew I should study computer science.
So yeah now I'm just getting settled (back) into the Bay Area, which is completely different from when I left... In a good way
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@Carl just in my own humble opinion, you can get away with not learning PHP. It's a bit of a broken language, and an older technology. You should take a look at things like NodeJS, ruby, JavaScript, .Net etc, for web stuff. Languages like Java, C/C++, Python, and the like will only make you way better; learning the different languages and their paradigms will be super beneficial in all your other coding endeavors!
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This is my first time on this forum and boy, am I happy to find this.
I have been hunting for the best forum engine for over a month. It has almost become an addiction. I decided to go with Vanilla a week ago but soon found out that the best of Vanilla is for their hosted service which is not cheap. I have used vBulletin & IPB and as a result grown tired of conventional forum software. This is actually the first time that I would be truly wowed. This is amazing, guys! Keep up the great work!
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Hi nodeBB community time to introduce myself:
I'm a french (living in France at now, but some vision to escape in asia (China or Japan))
I am a web developper (in a small software company. Less 50 people)
Very interresting about open source projects and also participating in some.And very interrested about NodeBB and writting plugins for expand the community and the powerfull tools of this opensource project.
