Hello World!

What better way to start a blog off than the classical way of starting in programming ~ the ol’ Hello World! My name is Daniel, I go by OGLinuk as my online handler, and I have a raging passion for IT. Technology has been apart of my life for as long as I can remember, starting with an old windows 98 desktop and an N64. This is where my passion for gaming began, with classics like 007 golden eye, banjo-kazooie, diddy kong racing, donkey kong 64, legoland, and so many more. Over the years the technology changed, but my passion didn’t. Console games had my attention for many years, until I was introduced to a game called RuneScape back in 2003 by my neighbor. My brother and I jammed RuneScape until around 2007, which is when I bought my first xbox 360. My brother continued to play RuneScape, while I started to play the Call of Duty games (starting with modern warfare). This went on until I finally bought my first laptop in 2009, which would spell the end of console gaming for me. I was introduced to a game called World of Warcraft, which instantly grabbed my attention since it looked like RuneScape on steroids.

Fast forward to 2016, I had moved to New Zealand and was starting my bachelor of IT at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. Little did I know this would be the start of my career in IT, more specifically in programming. Prior to attending NMIT I had 0 knowledge of any field that was covered in the bachelors degree. This was a big eye opener to just how much technology had progressed and how far behind I was in learnings. Now its 2018, I am in the final months of my degree, and I have learned numerous aspects of the IT industry. This includes things like computer hardware, cloud infrastructure, networking basics (like DNS, IPv4/6, DHCP, etc…), linux, databases, programming (VB, C#, MySQL, Python, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Golang), blogging, software testing, git, web development, game development (in Unity), and much more. Though I would say more than 70% of that I have learned in my own time or from my good friend Sam. This blog will be my path for others to get started or to improve their learnings in the IT industry. It will be bias towards programming, but it will contain information for other areas of IT like networking and databases.