I am a computer programmer, and for many years I have worked entirely in the world of Microsoft tools.  I have a lot of experience with large third party applications and in my early days I was an Oracle Wiz.  However, all of the custom, “From scratch”, development I do is in Microsoft, Windows Forms and MVC3 for the web.  Along the way, I have written a lot of applications for my personal use, during lunch breaks or remoting in to my work computers.  I have always wanted a way to do this sort of tinkering on my home computer, but Microsoft tools are way too expensive.  With MVC3, I have had to master JavaScript, and that has inspired me to learn more free open source methods of coding.  After some research, Python seems to fit my philosophy the best.  I am hoping to get some Django applications up and running in this shared hosting environment.  I plan to use this blog to chronicle my efforts and serve as a self reference.