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Martin Himmel • Edited
Year Learned Notes
2004 XHTML / HTML4 The dark years before I knew about CSS
2008 HTML5, CSS/CSS3
2009 JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL Focused more on PHP, forgot most of JS
2014 JavaScript, Java JS for real this time
2015 Career change - see below
2016 Laravel, Ruby
2017 Vue

From 2000 to February 2015, I was a dental tech. All code prior to this was as a hobby. There were some years sprinkled in there where I didn't touch code at all.

The "JS for real" note in 2014 is when I decided I finally had enough with the dental world and wanted to get into programming. After watching a presentation on Ember at a meetup, I thought I should get back to JS and really learn it this time. I dove into the deep end and recreated about 80% of the original (NES) Dragon Warrior using HTML5 canvas and JS. This was probably my first real/practical step towards the career transition.

I dabbled with Ruby in 2016 mostly to learn the syntax of it. Built a simple command line game with it and haven't done anything with it since.