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[Asteconn]

Hello.

My name is not Dave. It's Richard. I'm the forum admin, help run the web host that this site sits on, and work in the Web, PR and Music teams. It's quite likely that you've not seen me much unless you're part of the dev-team or have seen one of the songs I've written for the game on youtube or soundcloud.

My previous intro thread seems to have gone on strike for better work and conditions, so here's another.

If you're after listening to (or downloading even) any of the songs I've composed you can hop over to soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/asteconn/

I'm free for being asked stuff if you're curious too.

[Weremetalwolf]

Hi my new friend and welcome to the Legends of Equestria forum! I wish you to have the best stay here and make lots of friends! And most important HAVE FUUUN!!

[Ryo_D_Disk]

I dont know why this feels redundent scince you know the site but regardless I have this post here and im going to use it

Greetings and welcome to the forums and to LoE. Please check out the rules explore and have fun. There's lots to see and do and all the time in equestria to see it, there's Arts, Videos, Stories, Singers RP'ers and more so join us you in the madness my friend 

but seriouly Good to meet you Ryo D Disk the dueling pony at your service

[The Wandering Magus]

greetings, and welcome, Mr. Richard!  I'm glad to see you here.  What do you do for a living when not fixing bugs or making music?

[Pipkin]

Well look who finally creeped out from the shadows...

I think my usual greeting would be rather redundant in your case

[Asteconn]

Hi my new friend and welcome to the Legends of Equestria forum! I wish you to have the best stay here and make lots of friends! And most important HAVE FUUUN!!

I dont know why this feels redundent scince you know the site but regardless I have this post here and im going to use it

Greetings and welcome to the forums and to LoE. Please check out the rules explore and have fun. There's lots to see and do and all the time in equestria to see it, there's Arts, Videos, Stories, Singers RP'ers and more so join us you in the madness my friend 

but seriouly Good to meet you Ryo D Disk the dueling pony at your service

Tá sé deas bualadh leat! You are quite correct in that I know the site pretty well.

Well look who finally creeped out from the shadows...

I think my usual greeting would be rather redundant in your case

Shadows are nice. You should see my office. I'll take a photo once I've cleaned the place up some. It's nice and dark in there.

greetings, and welcome, Mr. Richard!  I'm glad to see you here.  What do you do for a living when not fixing bugs or making music?

I'm a professional web developer! http://www.latech.co.uk/ So even when I'm not fixing bugs (or causing them), I'm fixing bugs (or causing them). If I'd have charged LoE for my services so far the folks would have gotten a bill for around £1000 or so (as a guestimate). But I haven't, because I'm nice like that.

[The Wandering Magus]

greetings, and welcome, Mr. Richard!  I'm glad to see you here.  What do you do for a living when not fixing bugs or making music?

I'm a professional web developer! http://www.latech.co.uk/ So even when I'm not fixing bugs (or causing them), I'm fixing bugs (or causing them). If I'd have charged LoE for my services so far the folks would have gotten a bill for around £1000 or so (as a guestimate). But I haven't, because I'm nice like that.

((psst: there's an error code at the bottom!

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Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/latech3/public_html/inc/footer.php on line 12
))

nice   private developer, or part of a bigger company?

[Tiger]

Haven't you been around for a long time already?  Being on the IRC chat and all.

Anyway, welcome I suppose

[Asteconn]

greetings, and welcome, Mr. Richard!  I'm glad to see you here.  What do you do for a living when not fixing bugs or making music?

I'm a professional web developer! http://www.latech.co.uk/ So even when I'm not fixing bugs (or causing them), I'm fixing bugs (or causing them). If I'd have charged LoE for my services so far the folks would have gotten a bill for around £1000 or so (as a guestimate). But I haven't, because I'm nice like that.

((psst: there's an error code at the bottom!

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Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/latech3/public_html/inc/footer.php on line 12
))

nice   private developer, or part of a bigger company?

Most odd - thanks for the heads up. I'm self employed.

Haven't you been around for a long time already?  Being on the IRC chat and all.

Anyway, welcome I suppose

I've been around since LoE's inception, yes. And Equestria Online before that. And Equestria Chronicles before that too.

[The Wandering Magus]

what's the strangest bug you've ever fixed?

[Asteconn]

what's the strangest bug you've ever fixed?

The strangest? That's a legitimately tough call actually. Most of the bugs I need to fix are pretty dull affairs - things like an end-of-line missing or an unclosed HTML tag. Most of the really weird things come from broken CSS.

[The Wandering Magus]

ever encountered a bug you couldn't fix?

[Mr.Fox]

Welcome Richard 

[Asteconn]

Welcome Richard 

Greetings!

ever encountered a bug you couldn't fix?

Much more often than I'd like.

[The Wandering Magus]

what programming language do you most often deal with?  which one do you prefer?

[Asteconn]

what programming language do you most often deal with?  which one do you prefer?

Programming languages: PHP is the one that I deal with almost exclusively. I have a preference for it also - I can generally deal with PHP.

If we count markup as well, then it's CSS; especially when I've developing an adaptive site.

[Pipkin]

I could never wrap my head around PHP, which makes being a site admin kinda difficult at times...

Perhaps I should read into it a bit more it just looks really complicated compared to HTML/CSS and VB

[The Wandering Magus]

did you learn programming by yourself as a hobby?  did you ever take formal classes?

[Asteconn]

I could never wrap my head around PHP, which makes being a site admin kinda difficult at times...

Perhaps I should read into it a bit more it just looks really complicated compared to HTML/CSS and VB

At it's most basic PHP is blissfully easy.

Initially I started off using server side includes (SSI):
<?php include("a-file.php");?>

It's a great way to use repeating content across an entire site - such as menus and the like.

did you learn programming by yourself as a hobby?  did you ever take formal classes?

Both! I'm finishing a degree in Web Development at the moment.

[Little Star]

Welcome welcome welcome! I'm StarSong, very nice to meet you Mr.