User:Anton.Hvornum

Anton Hvornum was born 1987 in Malmö, Sweden and later on moved to a small city in Sweden called Växjö.

Early life
As a child aged three, Anton started working with computers on a basic level. His grand father (whom at the time was an IT employee and held conferences about IT) sat down and taught him everything he knew. While time leaped by, Anton started playing around with the family computer. At the age of five he had learnt everything from the DOS console to basic computer handling and gaming. At the age of ten, Anton started learning and developing basic HTML sites for the fun of it.

Later on, around the age of thirteen to fifteen, he began to learn PHP and Visual Basic at school. At that time he was attending an Upper Secondary Technical School with a "masters" in Programming and Network Administration/Security. He had already gained a lot of basic knowledge thanks to the time spent at the computer and all the LAN's he was going to. But he leaned even more still from Cisco's equipment, network security and other things he wouldn't otherwise have learned.

After studying PHP and Visual Basic in school Anton took extra classes in programming where he was supposed to study OOP in Java but ended up learning how to create OOP in PHP.

It wasn't until later days where he learned Python as the main language.

Programming
Over the years Anton has gathered a wide spectrum of knowledge in a range of programming languages. As time has past by some of the knowledge has faded but others gained.

HTML/CSS
At the age of ten Anton started learning basic HTML and CSS things. Back then you would be happy if you knew how to put white text on a black background.

PHP
Once he knew how to implement basic things on a web-page, he lost a lot of interest in HTML and CSS. Anton became more curious in how to make a page more interactive. At the age of thirteen he started to understand and develop his own PHP code for simple things like Logins, News and Polls etc. Later on he learned how to do more advanced OOP projects and online music libraries etc. PHP would be one of his main developing languages until later years.

Visual Basic
At the age of fifteen Anton took his first programming lessons in school. The main language on the class was Visual Basic 6.0 but Anton also learned .NET on the side. At first it was the basic standard things such as a Calculator, changing colors on things and variable handling. But roughly three weeks into the course Anton had done the most part of the Programming A study book and was allowed to experiment with his own things in class. The first real application he created was a LAN application that would handle all the visitors on the LAN, who payed the fee for a seat and internet, who bought a certain amount of candy and beverage and such things.

Python
From the age of twenty and still counting, Anton started learning and developing Python applications. Only took about three weeks as well to learn the fundamentals about Python. For obvious reasons knowledge about more advanced techniques would grow larger as time passed by. But after three to five weeks Anton could do the exact same thing in Python as took two years to learn how to make in Visual Basic or PHP as an example. He quickly discovered the main advantage with Python, with no prior knowledge of how things worked or advanced knowledge of Python, Anton managed to create several working applications in less then 24h. Some examples of 24 working hours projects:
 * Web-server software with script support
 * SMTP/POP server software
 * Transparent web-proxy
 * Torrent tracking software
 * FTP server
 * Chat application
 * Image Processing application
 * Etc etc..

Occupation
As of now Anton is working for ITT Corp. He's currently a Support IT Technician with location in Sweden. He supports a major area of software support, network administration and in some cases server administration in a smaller scale (such as Exchange features, folder rights). While supporting users his job also involves Web-development for internal and external sites on the ITT Flygt network (more specifically some of the IT departments web-pages)

On his spare time he runs a company called Tri-Network HB, a creative company mainly focusing on Development, Research and Network Security.