{"id":2,"date":"2018-10-12T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-634681-2064240.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-11-28T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:47:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.petecodes.co.uk\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
I’m Pete Gallagher… (That’s me just up there)… I’m a Freelance Programmer and owner of PJG Creations Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t I specialise in Business Applications and IoT. I’m also a Community Meetup Organiser and Public Speaker.<\/p> I’m happy programming in just about in programming language, Where I specialise in C#, VB.Net, Javascript and PHP.<\/p> I began my early career programming in Assembler and I still support companies in Assembler to this day.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t I’m also a Microsoft Azure MVP… You can find my MVP profile here;<\/p> <\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t I\u00a0 run Notts IoT<\/a>, co-organise Dot Net Notts<\/a>, Notts Dev Workshop<\/a> and I sit on the board of LATi<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t I’m an active STEM Ambassador<\/a>, and am happy to help with encouraging young people into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects.<\/p> I’m also a father to two naughty young girls who keep me on my toes at all times!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Now you’ve gotten to know me briefly, it’s time to know a bit more!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binatone#History<\/a>That’s me circa 1992… You’ll see a SAM Coup\u00e9<\/a> sitting there in front of me… That was the first computer I bought with my own saved up money as a little 12 or 13 year old boy.<\/p> This wasn’t my first computer of course… As far as I’m aware, that was the Binatone TV Master MKIV… A console rather than a computer though;<\/p> <\/p> It wasn’t long until I stepped up to a real computer mind you and grabbed myself a lovely (second hand), Spectrum 48k<\/a> with those fantastic<\/em> rubber keys;<\/p> <\/p>What I Do:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Microsoft Azure MVP:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
The User Groups I Run:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
An Active STEM Ambassador and Code Club Volunteer:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
A Bit Of History:<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Where it all began...<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t