Oldest Geek in the World?

Well, I write (serious) Computer Programs as a hobby (used to be a job 30 years ago). It's a great creative thing to do, so if any of you want anything written.........

 

You're welcome to disguise yourself as me and go and do my job for me if you like. I too am a professional programmer, used to love it, but now it drives me insane with boredom. Truth is it is probably still great if you can keep the creative aspect of it, but when you constantly have someone telling you want to develop, what it should look like, how it should work, and when it should be done by (yesterday usually), it gets a bit tedious. But then I'm sure you know that

 

Oh yes, been there have many tee shirts.

In the olden days it was great, I started as a Software Programmer writing Assembler on an ICL 470 (size of a planet). We were a law unto ourselves, making changes to the Operating System whenever we wanted (Change Contol hadn't been invented). Since then I've used just about every language and Op. Sys. and now stick to VB and VB.NET.

However, since getting bitten by the Gardening 'bug' I'm trying to think of some useful apps that might help with planning, growing, basic information etc, problem is that I'm a novice in terms of Gardening / growing things.

I also play with embedded systems (PICs and the like) and have this idea of having a e-weather station at our plots, feeding things like temperature max and min, rainfall, wind direction and speed back to home (the plots are in range of an accessible Wireless Network), sticking the results through some algorithm(s) and trying my hand at forecasting.

Mrs Doogle, however, thinks I should spend my time more constructively, digging and weeding.