I am 39++

I’m turning 39++ and in my 20 years of IT I have seen and did many things

• My first day on the job I broke the SCM. Destroyed completely
• I sent 3 people for a week to another country to fix something for a boolean I forgot to reset
• I forgot to invoice USD 50k after a fix to an invoicing software
• Did UI skins in java in year 2001
• Worked with IBM visual age for java!
• I’ve seen XML born
• Worked in IBM
• I coded in SmallTalk, FrontPage, Java AWT , Textile apps, and IoT
• I coded SOA , REST, SOAP services and microservices
• I coded a POS , backoffice and mobile apps
• I have seen OS2 (looks like this)
• We wrote SQL in the JSPs
• I interviewed many people, few good
• Visited India, US, Chile , Peru, Uruguay for work.
• Saw James Gosling in person! this is the guy
• Got fired from a startup in the year 2000 bubble
• Deployed java apps in AS400! ( I bet just a few did that)
• Worked remotely with people in Italy, India, Denmark, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Uruguay, United States, Spain, New Zeland, Dubai, England
• My first programming book was Javascript in 1996
• I coded a call center app
• Tried college 3 times
• Had Gmail since 2004
• Used ICQ, MSN Messenger and IE 4
• Download 4MB of Internet Explorer 4 thru the whole night connected to a modem.
• Learned with the IBM Red books
• Played the first version of DOOM
• Coded in a Commodore 64!
• I got evacuated for fire many times
• I got into the office and it was robbed thru the night
• I got fired and I got another job the same day

Happy coding !