About the author

So who am I and why do I have a Homepage?

To answer the first question I'm a 4^th year Information Technology student studying in N.U.I, Galway. My name is David Hernández but people like to call me Dave, probably 'cause it's easier to say (either that or they can't pronounce my name).
To answer the second question it's fashionable to have a Homepage these days and since I have absolutely no hope of being fashionable in the other sense of the word (that's the one with all those good looking people) I thought I'd be better off gracing my presence in a part of the world where nobody can see me.

N.B. If you are an employer who happens to have lots of money to spare ;-) why not have a look at my C.V. Or download resume.doc or cover.doc.

Why I'm interested in Computer Stuff.

Ever since my family got their first computer back when I was still learning my times tables I was hooked. It was a BBC Micro and I was astounded by the power of the thing, I mean with a little bit of patience ( a lot of patience nowadays ) it could do anything. Ok so you couldn't play Doom or Quake but in those days to an influential kid it was really something ( and it did have space invaders! :-). Even more amazing was the whole concept of being able to tell it exactly what to do, i.e. program the machine! When my brother started programming in a strange new language called BASIC I began to take an interest and eventually got to program myself; only going so far as some basic 'if' statements ( Alan Turring eat your heart out ).
When the time came to sell the computer we bought a more modern machine; a Commodore Amiga 500 and life hasn't been the same since. If I thought the ol' Micro was good this machine was beyond my wildest imagination. The quality of images and sound were pretty impressive back then and even now they don't seem too bad. After years of playing games ( Sensi Soccer, Kick Off, SuperCars, Falcon ...) I got to hear of a programming tool called AMOS that would allow you to program games with complex arcade sequences and things. I saved up enough money to send away for and buy the software, but because I never had any formal training in programming I didn't get any further than controlling sprites and bobs with a joystick and scrolling text and images on the screen. Eventually I decided I'd like to make a carear using computers so that all those long hours in front of a monitor wouldn't be wasted. So now I'm learning to program in C, C++ and a variety of other languages. To this day I'm still amazed at the power of the computer and my quest to learn more about it still goes on ....
So that's the long winded answer as to why I'm interested in computers. Do you care? Probably not, but maybe some of you have had a similar introduction to computers and maybe you can understand what I'm trying to get at here. If not well don't loose any sleep over it, it probably just means that you're more normal than I am.

Currently I have an Amiga 500 running Kickstart version 34.5 and Workbench version 34.21 release 1.3; and an Intel PC running MS-DOS 6.22, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and RedHat Linux 6.1.