About Me

Let me start by introducing myself on this fresh blog.

My name is David Cumps, I’m a developer, mainly dealing with Microsoft software, though not shy of dabbling in other technologies either.

I’ve been coding since 1998, started with Quick Basic and worked my way up to VB6. Before that I mainly entertained myself with HTML, and hex editing all kinds of things. My computer age started at 7 with an Amiga 500. In 2001 I got into PHP and since then everything went a lot faster. Thanks to PHP I started learning object-oriented programming, and it was also the language that brought me in contact with businesses, the first thing I coded for someone else was in PHP.

When I reached this point, I had learned everything myself. And then came the time I started learning to code in school.

Some languages I saw were Batch, Bash, Perl, COBOL, RPG, C++, ASP, SQL and Java. And most importantly: C#!

The year before we got C# in school, I had already started learning it, and it’s great. I’m addicted to C#, even more than I ever was to PHP.

C# got me in contact with everything .NET related. I love the framework, the power. It makes things much easier. It’s even easy to convert code from VB.NET to C#! :)

Now I’m at a point where I have a decent coding background, I made all the usual coding mistakes (and probably will make a lot more), I have business experience, worked in a team and alone, big and small projects, internal and external. Technology still dominates most of my life, it’s even relaxing in a way.

Have a look at my projects to get a more detailed overview of the projects I’ve worked on and my skill set.

That’s about it for now. If you want to know something, drop me a line!