About
Myself
Greetings, my name is Lucas Murray and I’m a 21-year-old computer geek, electronic engineering student and ex-freelance website developer. I guess you could sum up my entire life so far as “hardcore geek”, having been brought up playing and tinkering with computers since the age of 3 I couldn’t imagine living without them. I started programming on my 10th birthday and released my first website at 11, although I didn’t really know how bad it was at the time I thought it was pretty cool. Fast-forward ahead eleven years later and I’m still interested in software and programming and I’m still doing my best to learn everything that there is about it.
To me programming languages mean nothing as I’ve swapped and changed so many times over the years as each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. The language is just the means of programming, not the programming itself. Some of the main computer-related languages I have used include:
- C
- C++
- C#
- Python
- PHP
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- MySQL/PostgreSQL
- JavaScript
- Bash script
- Assembly
- Java
As mentioned before I used to be a freelance website and software developer. I started working as a professional near the end of 2004 for a couple of small clients but as I haven’t really worked on anything that has made it “big” I do not have much of a portfolio, this makes it extremely hard to prove that I have the experience. As I no longer work in the area anymore it really doesn’t bother me now, but every now and then the question “How do I prove myself?” comes up in my mind. This is basically the reason why Undefined Fire exists—a place where I can publish some of the random “junk” I work on in my free time.
