About Geoff Lane
I’m Geoff Lane and I write Zorched.net as I figure things out about software development in the hopes that it can help other people facing similar situations. Also as a thanks to the larger web community for all of the information and knowledge that they have shared. I’ve been a professional software developer since 1999 working with a variety of different technologies. I’ve worked for startups in the Silicon Valley and Chicago, IL and now work as a consultant in Milwaukee, WI building custom applications for all different kinds of clients.
Professional
Software designer and developer, polyglot, metaprogrammer, defender of Agile practices, writer of Unit Tests, practitioner of refactoring.
Fluent: Java, C#, Ruby, Groovy
Conversational: Objective-C (Cocoa), Python, JavaScript, PHP, Unix Shell Scripting
Familiar: C, C++, Erlang, Scala, Scheme, Perl
I’m interested in a lot of different things I guess — OO Design, Domain Specific Languages (especially psuedo-natural language stuff), Web technologies and am curious about Functional Programming languages. I prefer Unixy systems like Mac OS X and Linux. I prefer Java over .NET for most things, but I know and have used both. In my own time I do little of either preferring to use and play with more dynamic languages. Vim for quick and dirty, Emacs or TextMate for little languages, but I usually prefer a modern IDE for real coding work when I can get it.
Personal (but not too Personal)
Moved to Milwaukee, WI from Chicago, IL. Live with my wife, one dog, and one cat. Prior to Chicago did a stint in the Silicon Valley during the tail end of the .COM boom.
I have lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Ohio and California (twice)
Love metal (Darkest Hour, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, Three Inches of Blood, The Black Dahlia Murder, Arsis) and I especially love Swedish Metal (The Haunted, In Flames, At The Gates, Dark Tranquility, Amon Amarth). But I like other music too: Johnny Cash, Hank Williams III, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus.
Grow a garden in the brief Wisconsin summer. I enjoy traveling — I’ve been to five foreign countries and hope to visit more. I have been a vegetarian for over 15 years.