I'm mainly a Delphi dev. I work for a software company which does solutions for retail management, including inventory, POS, reporting, BI, Tags, and more. It's been in Delphi since Delphi's been around.

I've known Delphi for about 4 years now, and before that, I had learned VB6. I havn't gone back to VB since I learned Delphi. I also taught myself QBasic and HTML as a kid. It hasn't been until the past 5 years that I've been diving into programming.

I have no official education in programming, other than an introductory class in High School to Visual Basic 6. After that class, I taught myself VB6 for a while, until I laid my eyes on Delphi. Since then, I've aborted anything I've written in VB and gone to Delphi.

Since then I've also become vaguely familiar with ASP.NET with C#, as well as some C# windows apps. But I'm not too fond of the whole .NET idea. .NET is good for web platforms and such, but not for win apps. I have built a number of web applications including JavaScript and AJAX.

Experience:

• Delphi 7 - XE2 - Primary
• SQL Server 2000+ - Intermediate
• ASP.NET - Learning
• C# (with ASP.NET) - Learning
• C# Windows Apps - Rarely
• Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc. - Learning
• VB6 - First language, Never

Some of my projects:

• Image Loader Component - Loads images in threads, and maintains a cache for performance
• Server/Client Command Sockets - Custom TCP sockets with login, cookies, etc.
• Chat/Messenger Server/Client component suite - everything needed to build a chat system - all non-visual functionality for managing chat server/client.
• Customizable needle gauge - flexible gauge control for multiple needles, tick marks, etc.
• Fast drawing graph similar to the ones in the Windows Task Manager
• Remote Desktop Surveillance System - View/control numerous desktops at once through central server
• More components include a 3D label, glass label, glass button, glass form (otherwise a glass drawing library), and other simple visual controls.
• More apps include alarm clocks, NFL game betting system, jukebox, and more.
• A few websites including the one posted to the left (needs updating)

My strengths:

• Understanding the bigger picture of projects
• Writing Custom Classes
• Code organization (within unit)
• Writing purely independent classes (as opposed to cross-referencing)
• User Friendly GUI's
• Developer Friendly Classes

My weaknesses:

• Implementing a Database
• Using and Building API's
• Defining proper types (such as when to use PChar vs. String)
• Lower-level coding (such as ASM)
• Originally structuring projects to make expansion easy
• Multithreading

PS - My noted website is 100% purely coded my myself in C#, and is my core testing grounds for web development - which I have a lot of brushing up to do.

It's always nice to know you're able to do something, even if you never use it.