In this interview, Andre "cruizer" Cruz, a Sr. Web Developer with OSRP talks about his early days as a budding programmer. His joy of programming his very first computer and how he discovered compilers. Andre also talked about how he got hooked with BASIC and how trading diskettes with games can give you a free book on the BASIC programming language. How he escapes the boredom of compiling code back in the days. His programming competition days and how he eventually discovered Linux which has changed his perspective about Open Source technology.
This interview is packed with dozens of nuggets including topics regarding Mono, C#, Ruby On Rails, Sharpdevelop, Unit testing tools, tips and tricks.
Also, learn why his son likes Ubuntu better than Windows Xp. :)
>> Listen to the full show here <<
*updated*: the file link was broken due to an extra http:// on the url. sorry about this :) and thanks to jokiz for bringing it to my attention!
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About Andre "Cruizer" Cruz
Andre Cruz graduated from DLSU Manila in 1996, ECE. He started programming 1987 when he grade 6 using Sharp pocket computer with 1.2KB of RAM.
He graduated into Apple ][ programming then to the PC world in 1988.He first learned BASIC, then eventually assembler and C, Pascal, C++.
When he was in high school, he joined a programming competition sponsored by the Philippine Computer Society and won first place. He became part of the Phil team to SEARCC and Intl Software Competition (sponsored by Singapore computer board) from 1990 to 1992, with our team winning 3rd place in 1992. He later served as one of the trainers for the Phil team in 1996
He worked for INFOCOM ("sequel.net") where he was the main source for Shanai Twain mp3s and it was there that he got immersed in the Internet. His boss asked him to study Linux and eventually he pushed for its promotion inside INFOCOM kasi takot sa Linux mga tao doon nun time na yon (they were for big-iron UNIX like Solaris and Digital UNIX). it was there where he learned CGI, Perl, shell scripting...
He also taught at the DLSU ECE dept for about three years. He then worked for a web app startup named Intergate after getting bored with the academe. There he used open source stuff most of the time. After almost three years, he went to Equitable PCI Bank and that's where he learned VB, ASP and eventually ASP.NET and C#.
currently he is a Sr. Web Developer with OSRP.
Links from the show:
Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
MonoRail: http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/MonoRail
RubyOnRails: http://www.rubyonrails.com/
Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
ObjectMentor: http://www.objectmentor.org
NUnit: http://www.nunit.org/
sharpdevelop: http://www.sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
TestDriven.NET: http://www.testdriven.net/
NAnt: http://nant.sourceforge.net/
MsBuild: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wea2sca5.aspx
Posted
Apr 04 2006, 04:21 PM
by
keithrull