Who are you?
My name is Neil Fenwick and I live in London. I spend my days building web-based applications with ASP.NET and related Microsoft technologies.
Originally, I started out on a Commodore C64 back in the 80′s, in my pre-teens, and tinkered mostly with BASIC. From there I progressed onto QBASIC during my school years, with the help and influence of my good friend Nicholas Van Esch. I hadn’t even caught onto the concept of binary or picked up any knack for coding at this point.
My real entry into programming started with coding up a large, complex final year university project in Java, where I really took to the concept of managed code and a runtime environment. This experience served me well and in 2002 I took to ASP.NET like a duck to water, thanks to familiarity with managed code and object-oriented programming. Since then I’ve worked on small to enterprise projects, all based on Microsoft technologies, and have used every version of C# from 1.0 through to 3.0, VBA, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000 – 2008, Internet Information Services 5.0 – 7.0, MSMQ and good old classic ASP 3.0.
However, not every experience that I write about in this blog is all about the code. I’ve worked with some great people and learned a lot of things that I’ll try to share in my own words. I never started out in life with the aim of being a programmer, but I found that I enjoyed the coding aspects of my electrical engineering degree more than the content of the courses!
"You work with Microsoft technologies, so why is your blog based on WordPress?"
I’m a believer in use the right tool for the job and WordPress "just works" for blogging. Blogging is what it was built to do and it does that better than any of the .NET blogging platforms that I tried first.
"How do I contact you?"
I can be reached at neilf@codeoverview.com