About me

My name is Miguel Moreno and am the author of this web site. This site is my personal site where I will post anything I see that may be of interest to anyone.

Most of the times it will be related to Web and software development, other times I will post about anything that I think is worth sharing with anyone interested.

I am also posting a variety of code experiments. These come from challenges that I have eventually managed to overcome (or not) and find worth sharing.

I don’t really know. I ask myself the same question. I tend to be an inquisitive person and if I find a solution to a problem or something that can be shared and will help people out, then I’ll gladly share that. Other than that, I also think it is a good showcase for the passion I have for creative solutions to problems and skills.

I am a software developer with a somewhat functional right brain. That means a programmer with a rare blend of creative capabilities, enabling me to write software and also make it user friendly, attractive and intuitive to the end user.

The year was 1982, when on a cold, Dutch, breezy winter day my parents surprised me with my first computer. At age 11, I was the proud new owner of a Commodore 64, including a tape drive, a shoebox-sized floppy drive and a color monitor, exactly like shown below.

Did I mention it was a COLOR monitor? Yes, color! Not green, grey or orange…. COLOR! Back then, I was probably the coolest kid on the block (not so much anymore). Since then, other PC’s followed: I subsequently owned a x286, x386, x486 dx2, etc.

I went to college and studied a few years of Computer Science but at 19 years old, there were too many pretty girls to look at. Combined with some persistent ADD, I eventually (and inevitably) dropped out.

I was left with having to enter the Merchant Marine Academy to please my father, following his career. This is a military academy, so I was straightened out the hard way and graduated with honors. I spent 5 years at sea, travelling around the world several times.

My passion for computer science remained. I would buy books on how to program and write on-board maintenance planning applications in Access, Visual Basic and anything else I could get my hands on.

After a few years at sea, I decided to trade my compass and sextant for a keyboard and a mouse. I moved ashore and have since then been involved in everything from teaching to writing software.

Now, that is a bit complicated: my mother is from Venezuela, my father is from Spain.

I however, was raised Holland and I spent over a decade of my life in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. I then moved to Italy for a few years and then Brazil and Venezuela for another couple of years.

Add to that, 5 years at sea, about 14 years in the USA and you will easily realize that I am really a citizen without a country.

I have dual citizenship: I am both a US citizen and a EU citizen (Spain).

Yes… every experiment and its corresponding code was written by me.

Sometimes, I look back and I don’t get it either. Some of it looks really simple, with lots of errors and some of it looks more difficult. I guess, when I am into solving a problem, I am able to focus, solve it and just completely forget how I did it.

I am fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

In addition, growing up in Europe I couldn’t help but become familiar with other languages. I also studied German, French and Latin in high school.

I would love to learn German, Portuguese and French.

You can reach me via the following channels, whichever you prefer:

• hello@miguelmoreno.net
  @miguelmorenonet
  linkedin.com/in/miguelmoreno
  plus.google.com/+miguelmorenonet
  github.com/miguelmoreno
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