I started a relational database design and development business from scratch at the age of 39 in 1987. Closed that business in 1993 and then modified 300K lines of code at night until it worked the way I wanted by 1996 (at the age of 48).
I was so exhausted by then that I swore that I would never touch code again. I got away with that until last year when I realized that I needed to look at development again for a unique business project.
Wow, has the ecosystem changed over the last 20 years! I feel like a kid in a giant never-ending candy store. So here I am, 70 years old, full of ideas and there is free code everywhere I look. I've still got 20 plus years in front of me. I've built entire enterprises in less than 5 years so the future is unbound and certainly age is not the problem.
Stay tuned.
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I started a relational database design and development business from scratch at the age of 39 in 1987. Closed that business in 1993 and then modified 300K lines of code at night until it worked the way I wanted by 1996 (at the age of 48).
I was so exhausted by then that I swore that I would never touch code again. I got away with that until last year when I realized that I needed to look at development again for a unique business project.
Wow, has the ecosystem changed over the last 20 years! I feel like a kid in a giant never-ending candy store. So here I am, 70 years old, full of ideas and there is free code everywhere I look. I've still got 20 plus years in front of me. I've built entire enterprises in less than 5 years so the future is unbound and certainly age is not the problem.
Stay tuned.