I’m not surprised you would ask, as I’m still trying to figure this out myself. I do, however, know a couple of things and I’ll gladly share some of them with you.

I’m your typical web developer in his 20s (30s where I come from, we like to feel old over here). I come from the remote place of Iceland, where I’ve lived since birth. My interest for the Internet came relatively early, as with so many other developers and tech enthusiasts. I started fiddling with HTML around the age of 10.

Thrilled about my ability to throw together websites using the latest tech (tables and a couple of blink and marquee here and there), it wasn’t until some time later I found out about CSS. This was around the time most websites around were still laid out using tables and browser support for CSS was still pretty scarce.

I set sail, learning the magic and headaches of floats, the box model, multi-column layouts and browser inconsistencies. Little by little things started to make sense, but I still wondered how huge websites were managed. News websites, blogs and other entertainment were on the rise and I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea that it was all managed in HTML files. There had to be something else doing all the hard work.

That’s when I met PHP and it’s cousin, MySQL. Getting it to work the first time around was a real struggle, since it uses a web server to run, but all this effort paid well. I remember my excitement the first time I passed a form over to another script. I was destined to learn all I could about this magical stuff.

Almost everything I know today comes from the Internet and its selfless content creators, and that may be why I’ve always wanted to give something back. I’ve read and followed countless tutorials, blogs, watched videos, all of which has helped me reach what I am today.

My dreams are big, as everyone’s dreams should be, and I plan on writing what ever comes to my mind, be it tutorials of my own, or just the quirks of living in a small community. Who knows where I’ll be in a couple of years, but I hope I’ll have given at least a fraction of what I’ve taken back.