The RayJ
Call me RayJ. Pronounced RayJay.
The Beginning
Born in the mid 1960’s in a Utah. Grew up in the next to the Cascades in Springfield, Oregon. Did my high school years in Pahrump, NV. Where I finally got the opportunity to lean computer programming on an Apple IIe. Circa 1982ish. I soon had a Commodore VIC20 and then a 64.
The Enigma of Linux
I am a Linux person. I prefer open source. Prefer not to support the secret worlds of those other operating systems. That is not to say that I cannot work equally well on those other operating systems. However, I do charge extra for that.
I am comfortable with command line work and manually editing config files. I prefer to know how things work under the hood. This helps solve many problems.
I do most of my coding on a “A fast and lightweight IDE” called Geany. I have tried various RAD like development systems (PHPStorm, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc), they are all fine, I am just too set in my coding style to convert over.
Travel
I have traveled a bit. Visiting about half the states in the US. I have visited the following countries: Japan (Tokyo), China (Hong Kong), New Zealand (various), Italy (various), and Thailand (various). I have landed at airports in Taiwan and Germany (while traveling) but did not get the chance to visit.
In the near future I will be moving my base operations to Thailand. The land of smiles.
PS: I moved to Thailand in 2023. Got married. Never been happier.