No, not this Alan Doyle. He can sing, I definitely can’t!
First, and foremost, I’m a father to 2 beautiful daughters. I’m an Irish (Dublin born) Software Developer currently living in Birmingham, England, although I hope to return to Ireland permenantly one day soon.
I’ve been a Software Developer for over 25 years now, initially working on embedded systems but currently writing cross-platform software to run on AIX, Linux, Open Server and Windows from a single common codebase for the Motor Trade.
My passion always was and always will be coding. I’ve been writing Software since I was 12 years old on the Commodore 64 my parents got me for Christmas, later I moved on to an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. However since I switched to PCs I’ve never been happy running Windows, I missed the passion Amiga coders had but now I’ve found that Open-Source software (particularly Linux) feeds that passion.
I regularly use many languages on a daily basis…
C, C++, C#, MFC, ASP.net, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL, MySQL, bash, Powershell... to name a few.
I’m not afraid to try other languages too and have been known to dabble in Python, Perl, Go and Rust.
I’ve written software for various flavours of Linux, as well as AmigaOS 1.x+, AIX 4.3+, SCO 4.2+ and all versions of Windows and DOS.
Here on Github you'll find my Windows, Linux and, hopefully, my Amiga projects too as I get time to clean them up and make them available.