About Satya

Hmm.. about my interests, there's science fiction, computers, sci-fi movies, and little else. I can discuss computers and Star Trek for hours, preferably combined :)

I know about four programming languages. I know that ancient dinosaur, GW-Basic. Yes, I know, the rage now is Java and Visual <anything>, but I learnt on GWBasic, and I still remember it. I did start on Visual Basic 3 recently, and wrote one or two programs which are available in the downloads section. I gave up on VB, I'm sticking with cross-platform things like C and perl. I started using Turbo Pascal in 1996, and I think I'm now good at it, but I'm dropping it in favor of C. I know just enough Javascript to do mouseovers. I wrote these pages using Notepad only. I don't use fancy HTML editors, because I prefer to write my own code.

I started learning C because that's the foundation for all the rest of it, right? That is, for Perl, CGI scripting, and of course C++ and Java (I've been told that there are enough differences between C and C++ for them to qualify as separate languages). Besides, C Programming is an entire subject in the 4th semester. And after learning VB and Oracle (under Unix, and Developer 2000) I think C++ shouldn't be too difficult. As of January 9th, 1999 I've started on Perl, and it is easy. Especially if you know C. Hmm. Time to put my resume here.

Around March 1999, some of the Mumbai engineering colleges held a techfest called 360 degrees - Encompassing the Horizon. This was done by the IEEE student chapters of the respective colleges. Besides doing the code for the online registration forms, I was one of the judges for the event called Explorer. This was a website design contest. A photograph later appeared on my hard drive:

If you want to know anything more about me, you'll have to email me at jam@comports.com or you can find me on irc at chat.talkcity.com port 6667 (port 7000 for AOL users) channels #tsec or #computertalk. Ask for "satya".

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