Welcome to the humble abode of me.
By way of introduction, my name is Randy Merrill. I am currently a unstudious student studying Management Information Technology at Utah State University who happens to also be employed by said university as a full-time Web Developer.
As for the fun hobbies, such as they are, I spend a lot of my free time programming. ( I know, it’s great fun! ) Now before you get any grand ideas about me being a smart individual I will stop you in your tracks to tell you that I am a terrible student, don’t know how to hack, and spend most of my time trying to figure out ways not to program so much ( aka lazy ).
On the professional end of things, I do work full time with the University as part of the Programming and Design Team in the Information Technology department. Basically we are trying to improve the university’s websites one at a time. I originally started working on web sites for the university as a student in 2005 and got hired on full-time by IT this past year.
Since being hired on full-time the majority of my time has been spent on a ColdFusion portal system for the university. Our goal is to try and launch the portal at the end of the Summer as school starts again but time has a way of catching up to projects so we’ll see how it goes.
My base of knowledge in programming stems from courses I took my first year as Utah State back in 2002. Wow, I’m getting old. Anyhow, I have since taken several programming and computer science classes, but since I am not inclined to take the math necessary I will not be majoring in Computer Science. On a positive note I am graduating this Fall with my Bachelors of Science and a minor in Computer Science (I’m not a complete slackard 
). Since my original C++ courses I have programmed a little in Java but mostly focused on web languages. To date I have been working predominately with ColdFusion and PHP as my main languages. In addition I have worked with MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle databases along with poking around in Flex and AIR.
I hope that you enjoy my ramblings as I try and share the things that I learn in the wonderful adventure called life.