Reading this blog will probably give you a better impression of who I am than this article, so geht-on-up-ouwtta-heeur (as is said in the state of my birth)!

Ok, fine, don’t take my advice…

Contrary to my Southern Belle heritage, I’m probably one of the geekiest people I know with the possible exception of my husband. I am the ideal wife for a geek in that I actually get excited when my husband says “hey, can we go to Fry’s and get a new terrabyte NAS today?”

I have been a developer for 14+ years, with a slight detour into technical training and back out again. I’m a “UI nerd” and am constantly absorbing new information about web standards and design. My passion is creating beautiful, elegant web interfaces both on the graphics and coding sides though I’ve done plenty of web forms, mobile dev and even some work with the Microsoft Surface SDK. Most of my experience has been with Microsoft technologies and my favorite language is C#, but I’ve dabbled in Ruby on Rails and even tinkered with PHP. My latest obsession is object oriented Javascript focused mainly around jQuery.

Besides my ever-present fascination with technology and the internet, I rotate through several other interests in phases of obsession including photography, photoshop design work, and web and software projects. I’m also a digital packrat and keep a gigantic collection of urls at Del.icio.us as well as copious digital notes in my favorite wiki variation. In my time away from the keyboard I train in Aikido, and have many “right-brained” hobbies such as beadwork, temari, kumihimo, decorating and general crafts. Because of my line of work and strange combination of interests, I have yet to find many other women who I have a lot in common with, but I guess that’s also what makes me somewhat unique.

So now you know, and “knowing is half the battle”.