John Barclay

John began programming in the early eighties in high school in BASIC, assembly language, and PASCAL on Apples, TRS-80s, and Atari 800s. Originally amused by the novelty of computer technology he grew into enjoying the logic, problem solving, design aspects and puzzles of computer programming. During his undergrad work in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois John's research work focused on computer modeling of groundwater and economic theory.

After a long break from computers in the 90's, the internet piqued John's interest in about 1996 and he developed an internet presence for a number of community groups such as Pixo developing Perl CGI web applications. In 1997 he started working for the College of Education initially developing on a Macintosh WebStar/Filemaker Pro/Lasso environment and migrating to an IIS/SQL Server 2000/Active Server Pages environment. This was followed by a period of classic ASP and ASP.NET with a lot of web services and XSLTs.

John's web development recently has been along 4 different lines: Drupal, web Apps with ASP.NET with MSSQL on the backend, maintaining a classic ASP CMS and web form system which is built on XHTML edited via Adobe Contribute, Dreamweaver and web forms, and filemaker, PHP, and PHP.FX.