Trey Stout's profile answers

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At my kid's 1st grade play.

Forget syntax, learn theory.

If I wanted to do something else, I'd be doing it.

Open a bank. Duh.

Mowing yards between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I've always had a secret desire to find a job that is half outdoor manual labor, and half software development. At least with mowing a yard, you know about how long it will take every single time. You put in the work and get the results. If only programming were the same way. But then again, I've never bragged about an amazingly efficient lawn mowing implementation....

A company that understands both the technical and artistic sides of development. Any place where the upper-management has read "The Mythical Man Month" or "The Pragmatic Programmer" is ideal.

I have been in love with programming since my first little QBasic games on my Tandy 1000. I need to work for a boss that knows to buy me a beer when I say something like, "I got that search algorithm down to O(n2)!"...

Founded a premier web application development house in Oklahoma City.

Designed and implemented a world-class image management property.

Redesigning access methods into a 15-year old legacy system, using modern asynchronous approaches. Adding multi-variance and versioning into this same system.