What happens when a collectibles geek moves in next door to a computer geek? Why, a website that sells collectibles, of course!
Griffin
Phoenix
Phoenix is a computer geek who hates writing about herself in the third person. Her dad was a computer operator in the 1960s. When she was a wee lass, he brought her into the datacenter one night, and lifted her up to press the START button on a tape drive. She's been hooked ever since.
She wrote her first computer program in an Illinois high school math class in 1976. She typed her programs in FORTRAN on punched cards, sent the decks to a datacenter in Iowa for processing, and got printouts back a week later.
Now she writes in many languages, including Visual Basic, C++, Java, C#, and Python as well as several old-school mainframe languages. So when Griffin came to her and said, "Phoenix, build me a website," she said, "OK," and added HTML, CSS, and Javascript to her repertoire. In addition to this website, she is currently working on setting up a Linux server on her laptop, so she can test new pages before they go live on the site. In August, she hopes to begin adding SQL to her bag of tricks.
When she can be torn away from her keyboard, she can be found curled up with a page-turner and a big cup of strong black coffee, playing hidden object games on her Android phone, and dreaming of the day she will have another Australian Kelpie.