Who is AngryDalty, really?

Well, I'm glad you asked.

In addition to being one sarcastic person, I'm actually a brilliant (yet humble) programmer-for-hire.  I use this website as a tool for creative writing, when I was younger, I had a real passion for it, however circumstance lead me to the IT industry.  Alas, I do enjoy geeking out a bit and writing some code for either my own use, or to help other people.

Here's a list of the technologies I use regularly, some of which I use on this website.  Read below for some detail on some of the applications I'm using here.

Programming Languages	Databases	Operating Systems	Other IT Stuff
Perl ~ It's fast becoming my favorite	Oracle v7-10g	Linux	Telecommunications
Oracle PL/SQL ~ What I do for a living	MySQL	Windows (desktop and Server)	Billing
JavaScript	Access	Unix	Systems Design
DOS and BASH scripting			Database Design
HTML			FTP Solutions
CSS
C++

There's a bunch more, but these are the most important ones to me nowadays.

"Angry's Comics" is a list of comics I read daily, instead of visiting each site daily, I use Perl and some screen scraping techniques to grab the daily comic and display it.  It fascinates me how I actually do work to make myself lazier.

The crossfit notifier is a favorite of mine and of hundreds of crossfitters around the Americas and the world.  It's a free service which I offer that gets the workout of the day from the Crossfit website and sends it via SMS/email to people who sign up.  The database was initially a text file, but, as time passed, I was getting a number of email from subs telling me that they liked the service, but the west-coasters were getting a little upset that the messages were coming in at 3:30am.  Doing transactions on a text file is a pain in the bum.  I needed to change it.  Amazing, I was interested in customer service even on a free product.

So, I decided to teach myself a little about MySQL, being a popular database and having an endless thirst for knowledge (and beer) I spun up a version, loaded all my existing subscribers in.  I spent a couple of hours one night writing Perl scripts and configuring a few HTML pages, now the notifier has an option for users to unsubscribe themselves, as well as pick thier own timezone.  Being even lazier and not wanting to manually configure the hundreds of accounts that are in there, I spun up another page, another script, now I have a temporary means to let the users update themselves.

What's next for AngryDalty.com?  I plan on eventually creating a facebook-style wall so people can post thier photo's and comments instantly, however that's a bigger project for a snow day.

Why do I do it?  I enjoy a challenge and I love to entertain people.  It's that simple.

If you are interested in having some work done, or your company needs some one-off work done, let me know and I can take very good care of you.

Best Regards

---AngryDalty!