Steve Russo

Hello, I'm Steve, and I'm new to this Wiki thing. I am still a bit of a skeptic, but I am always one to give new things a try.

I'm an IT Specialist, and enjoy programming as a hobby as well. In my employment, I am involved in writing workflow/financial reports in ASP, SQL Server, VB, Crystal Reports, PHP and Perl. I'm also responsible for everything else technologically-oriented within my company. I'm also an avid Linux user and enjoy programming in many other languages in my spare time, especially C/C++ and Java.

AdviceToNewcomers

Are you a programmer?

Yes, why?

Make a page with your name, tell us more about you and welcome! You have to be a programmer or to be involved in programming somehow.

Do you mean that you have to be a programmer to post here?

Yes, the subjects are related to programming. (Of course, no-one insists you are a programmer, but it does help a lot.)

This Wiki concept is quite bizarre. I happened to stumble upon it a few months ago while playing around with Mambo, and decided to take a closer look tonight while I was bored. This Wiki stuff is really fascinating for those of us with short attention spans. With all of the links to different subjects embedded into each page, I find myself skipping from subject to subject while I'm reading... Maybe this is just the initial "shock" of the whole Wiki thing, though.

I first heard of Wiki through the documentation at http://www.mamboserver.com a few months ago. Their documentation system was wiki-based (I don't know if it still is.) At the time, I really didn't understand the concept, and didn't spend much time trying to. Since then, I've accidentally wound up browsing to a few Wiki sites while searching for other things. Finally, I just decided to find out what it was all about, and I typed "Wiki" into Google and wound up here.

I'm playing around with CaseyWest's short Perl Wiki - SigWik (I love those obfuscated programs!) right now. I can't get it to save my text, though... I think it is just a permissions problem.

Ahh.. just got it to work. Fascinating that such a tiny program could have so much functionality!!

Well, I'm off to bed. I've gotta stop myself or I'll never get any sleep tonight. Take care! Steve

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