Travis Lin
I'm Travis, and I work on the web.
Since my first encounter of the Internet at a public library in 1998, I'm in love with this thing so simple yet sophisticated: multimedia contents cross linked between each other using the so called hyperlinks.
When I was 16, I had my first go on scripting HTML with notepad and built my first homepage (with dancing tomatoes) on Angelfire. Since this point on, the web I knew of, was starting to transform to something very different: MIDI became lame, chatrooms replaced by IM, directory-based search engine became unsatisfied and Internet specified roles were lacking.
As a clueless graduate, I thought I am going to grow up to be just-a-programmer, enthusiasm towards career was low and was drifting away trying out various other fields... until Internet was reintroduced to me: this time as a career opportunity. I couldn't imagine the potential of the web if I had not worked in a web designer farm. Learning everything from basic was fun and with help from mates in different workplaces (Larry, David, Javier to name a few), I quickly find myself somewhere I belong, between a passion of Internet technologies and a software architect: web-based application development.
I am a web application developer focusing on MVC framework and service-oriented architecture. My weapons of choice are PHP4/5, C#, CodeIgniter, ASP.NET MVC, SOAP, jQuery, CSS2.1 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Besides been a eWorkaholic, I always keep my eyes open for topics on emerging technologies and future standards like cloud and semantic web. I also try to participate user groups as much as possible and contribute my knowledge through forums and blogs. I'm a terrible presenter (and our dev team have to put up with it), but I am looking forward to the day that I won't stage fright or choke on my tongue.