I got into programming in 1990 as a business manager with a need that could realistically only be met with a software solution, and no budget. I thought "how ha

I got into programming in 1990 as a business manager with a need that could realistically only be met with a software solution, and no budget. I thought "how hard can this be?", took a laptop home and taught myself BASIC. Even though I moved full-time into development in 1996, writing code has always been about meeting a business need. I've never been particularly enamoured of the process or the tools, and put more initial effort into architecture in an effort to do less programming.