PHP is the programming language I have used the most. It’s mature, robust and has diverse applications. Although many think that it’s getting a bit old in the tooth, I still feel that it makes for an excellent server-side technology for numerous applications. There are also some localised applications that make use of the higher level functions offered by PHP.

However I started my coding journey with Basic. This was mainly encouraged by simply copying whatever my brother did (who was also born a geek). These accidental exploits in Basic were followed a lot of deliberate programming in Assembly, Matlab, Simulink & Scheme during various stages for my graduate & post-graduate education, as well as post-graduate research work.

This was enough to get me hooked to using any programming language. With the proliferation of web apps, PHP was the rage in the noughties, so I started making simple apps in PHP. The versatility of PHP, especially for web apps gave me the encouragement to make a couple of big apps.

I also enjoy coding in Python & Javascript for the same reasons I love PHP.

Recently I have created a lot of code in POSIX-compliant shell scripts. This started as a simple need to scratch several of my own itches, but quickly became a hunger making lots of reusable code, which is now published as simple libraries. If you ask me, I’d highly recommend ScripTally & ScriptScribe

Here’s a summary of some of my work, most of which is publicly available.