Well, there’s a lot that I could say about myself really, I have led a very interesting life, I have experienced a lot and I have done some pretty cool things.  Where to start talking about it is hard, but I will give you the low down on certain areas of my life that mean the most.

As many of you have already guessed, I’m a programmer, if you didn’t know, take a look at Troupware.  I have been programming for years, its one thing that I do that has brought a lot of meaning into my life and has helped me realize what I am capable of doing and producing.  I started out young, getting into computers when I was about 10, although my interest started way before this.  I got my first computer at 10 years old, which at the time, was a pretty good computer. 

Of course, by this point, I was just a standard computer user, but I was able to learn things about computers quicker than most other people.  Because of this, by the time I was 12, my computer had internally transformed.  I always remember my friend coming over and seeing all of the strange things I had done to Windows 3.1, and he was amazed.  Of course, at 12, this was the time my whole education life dramatically changed.

I started going to boarding school at age 12 to help me over come my increasing learning difficulties, which was recognized as Dyslexia.  Of course, because my school was private, I had access to the best computer equipment available.  After I had learned about other operating systems and learned everything I needed to know about Microsoft Windows, I started to focus my attention in the development side of computing.

The first type of development I started doing was website building.  I started building very simple sites to begin with; using FrontPage to aid the visual design and HTML for slightly more complicated sections.  Of course, I wanted to do better than this, so I started looking at simple JavaScript’s, which would enable me to make my websites even better.  After a year, website building had become an easy task, so I started to expand my development ways, into program writing.

Programming for me took a long time to get my head around, as I had to learn problem solving skills, I had to understand how all of the inbuilt functions of particular programming languages worked and how I could use them, etc.  Once I had moved far enough with programming, I started to write small programs, which I released a few of onto my then company website Understealth.  Of course, I learn other skills along the way to, which involved learning graphic design (for logos, pictures, etc), icon creating, user interface design skills, etc.

Programming is what I do best now, I spend more time building programs than website building, although I still do this from time to time (look at the Troupware site and this site for example).  I create programs every year, most of which are completely random ideas and some of which I have had suggested to me.  One of my best pieces of software is called Winlaunch, which is available from the main Troupware site, which has had hundreds of thousands of downloads in the recent months.

I have come a long way over the years; I am continually updating my skills and producing better programs.  I will continue to do this as I move on with my life.  I’m not a sad geek though that spends all of his time program, I have friends, I go out, I drink, I go to university, I play guitar and I have a really great family, which I can always rely on.  Family is one of the most important things to me, which will never change.

My friends also mean a lot to me, fine, some are good programmers and some are learning.  I always laugh around with them, crack jokes and try to enjoy my time with them the best I can.

Well, with that said, I hope I have given you enough information about me.  If you have any questions you want to ask, please drop me an email at my personally email address, not my Understealth email.  My personal email address is williamtroup@gmail.com, whereas my Troupware email account is william@troupware.com.