[FX.php List] Just Curious

[John Phillip Barclay]

I did some programming in high school with assembly language, pascal,
and BASIC on apples, TRS-80s, and Ataris.  

My formal training is in Environmental Engineering with my research in
mathematical modeling of groundwater and crop economics (FORTRAN) and my
work experience from the mid 80s to mid 90s was generally in
construction, organic farming, community organizing, etc.  I got back
into programming in the 90s when the Web took off.  Most of my
experience is with ASP and Visual Basic, XSLTs, XML, and CSS.  I hadn't
used filemaker 5,6, and 7 but did a lot with 4 and lasso.  For a recent
project I picked up PHP and FX.php and Filemaker 8 and found my skills
mapped well to it as follows:

Templating Languages: XSLT -> smarty templates
Glue Language: ASP -> PHP
Classes: COM objects -> PHP objects
XML database API: FX.php -> ADO XML

Web developers in general seem to come from all over while most of my
favorite programmers have English and Art backgrounds.

John Barclay, Champaign, Illinois www.johnbarclay.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dale Bengston
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:48 PM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Just Curious

Jonathan,

I started out in marketing for commercial software companies. I got sick
of having lousy (or no) tools to track my projects and streamline my
workflow, so I started writing my own. Other people thought they were
useful too, so I started a company to develop marketing and print
workflow tools (all web-based) for others. My college degrees are in
Journalism and History.

Particularly where FileMaker is involved, I think you'll find a lot of
people who "backed into" software development.

Dale

On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Chris Hansen wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> I don't have formal programming training (except the odd programming 
> class).  I have been programming since I was 14 (22 years), but I'm 
> self taught for the most part, and my degree is in English, not 
> anything technical.
>
> --Chris Hansen
>   FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
>   Creator of FX.php
>   "The best way from FileMaker to the Web."
>   www.iViking.org
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>> As many of you on this list have (painfully) witnessed, I am slowly 
>> but surely building my CWP skills with fx.php.....and I have a 
>> question for the List.
>>
>> What is your (formal) training in programming?
>>
>> Persoanlly, I have a mechanical engineering education, but no formal 
>> computer science training.  I don't know any computer languages. I 
>> have taught myself HTML, CSS and now fx.php and PHP....and of course 
>> FileMaker.
>>
>> I'm just wondering how many others are in the same boat, or have 
>> formal programming skills such as C, that transfer well to learning 
>> PHP.
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jonathan Schwartz
>> Schwartz & Company
>> 817 Marin Drive
>> Mill Valley, CA 94941
>> Phone: 415-381-1852
>> jonathan at eschwartz.com - http://www.eschwartz.com
>>
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