A Little History

I’m building this website primarily to fill a need to have some sort of professional face on the net. Sure, I have old websites that I built in high school and college, but I no longer felt that they represented me as a career-oriented Software Engineer. I had also been out of the web-design/development scene for about three years, so I felt like I needed to do something to re-educate myself.

After deciding to dive into this venture, I upgraded to a fabulous new hosting provider that gave me access to many more “goodies” than my old one. I knew right from the beginning that I wanted to give WordPress a try, so I installed the latest version to a non-production location and began to experiment. About a month later, after much tinkering and an exhaustive effort to find a theme that suited my needs, I present you with AlexGladd.com.

What is AlexGladd.com About?

My goal for this website is to use it as a tool for collecting and sharing all pertinent aspects of my professional development. I will post news and comments related to the software and web development industries, as well as personal anecdotes about experiences within my own career. With my interest in the growing “social web”, I dabble in developing web applications based on social networking APIs. In my spare time, I also like to develop client applications and libraries in various high-level languages. I intend to make all of these projects publicly available as they mature, perhaps even as open source through Subversion repositories.