29 Apr, 2008
Harvey Kane is a true webmaster. He has managed to do things that most of us want to do but simply don’t have the skills, time or man power to accomplish. He is a SEO consultant and runs the site Rage Pank where he discuss common (and not so) SEO problems.He has also developed his own open source CMS call Jojo CMS.
Why did you decide to learn to code?
Everything about my career in IT started with computer games. Back in the dark ages before internet, getting computers to work properly was quite tricky. A lot of my spare time was spent fixing mum’s computer before she noticed something was broken. I was tinkering with code from the age of about 8 or 9 I guess - writing simple programs in basic, and a (lame) attempt at a text-based adventure game, as was cool at the time. A friend of mine knew how to get coloured text appearing in basic, so there was a source of inspiration to keep me going.
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30 Nov, 2007
I had the pleasure of interviewing a great well known PHP coder. He goes by the name NGpixel and has worked on some famous sites like Pixel2life.com, Advance-Gamers.com and wowscape.net. He runs his own company at Ngpixel.com. His real name is Nicolas and is only 18 years old but has made many accomplishments in the computer field.
Why did you decided to learn to code?
At first, I wanted to build my own tutorial indexing system. But at that time, I was relying on Wordpress, definitely not the best system for tutorials… but with some editing, it worked. The limitations of Wordpress became too much apparent at some point so I decided to build a system from scratch. I’ve been editing scripts before but I never really looked at the opportunity to build my own system. Even if I needed some tutorials, it wasn’t that hard at first, I had some VisualBasic 6 knowledge already from high school.
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