Anne Jan Brouwer is a developer at
Kingsquare information services in Beverwijk the Netherlands.
Born in 1979 started with computers when
Herman Brouwer, my dad bought a
C64 in 1987.
After BASIC and some machine code (mostly music, nothing any good) I went to play with a
P2000 at school (was a step back from C64) later early nintees we got a SIREX 286 PC..
After the basic BATCH menu's and some GWBASIC I went on to
QuicBasic..
QuickBasic was a lot of fun.. Especialy the
4.5 version that had an EXE compiler/linker.
Did a lot of fractal graphics and some basic 3D stuff with it.. If I ever find that stuff I'll put them online..
Later on windows I played a bit with VisualBasic, didn't like it much, did do a silly VB
project with
Jan Hein Koster early 2000's.
In 1998 I first installed Linux (
RH
5.1) on my own PII 300. I realy liked how you could make it do the
stuff you want instead of you having to buy (or copy) the stuff you
need..
Somewhere early 2000 I met up with
Paul Honig,
Lourens Willeboordse and
Jurgen Deen at the (now dead)
Worldcity internet cafe, we did a hell of a lot of work there..
We started
TP2B on the Worldcity network.. The domain we lost in 2009 :(
Paul convinced me to swich from
SuSE (the Linux distro I was using at that time) to
Slackware. I'm still mostly using slackware.
After dropping out of school I started to work for Vernet Amsterdam in November 2002.
After learning
C, C++, php and more, I'm now working on getting
LPI certified..
This is my
view well close ;)
After working as a programmer and system and networks administrator at
Vernet in Amsterdam
(google earth) I now work in Beverwijk as a PHP/MySQL/Linux developer for Kingsquare
information services.
