I am a self taught programmer hailing from the late 90's back in the days when a couple of gifs on a web page made a really good website, especially if it was animated gifs :-) now i am the manager of my own web department. I love to code and love to work with databases, i run 3 windows web farms, sql server farm and a mysql cluster on 4 linux servers. you never really realise how good linux really is until you actually need them for some real work. i am currently learning asp.net mvc...... have been an asp programmer so this is also a big push into C# too but all is going well i think and its all fun and discovery.