User:Earmbrust/Elden Armrbust

Elden Augustus Armbrust was born July 4th, 1980 in Columbus, Ohio at Saint Mary's Hospital. He spent the first 7 years of life living near the Upper Arlington area of Columbus, and received his first Texas Instruments computer when he was 4 years old.

At the age of 7, his family moved to a more rural area of Ohio called Sunbury. There, he tended to chicken, cows, pigs, ducks, geese, goats, and sheep. The plot of land he and his family lived on spanned 57 acres, and had a modest size creek running through the 40 acres towards the back of their land. While living in Ohio, Elden received his education from Tremont Elementary School, and St. Agatha Catholic School.

Just before his tenth birthday his family moved from Ohio to Melbourne, Florida. Elden spent one year, his 4th grade year, at Sabal Elementary School. For his fifth grade year to his eighth grade year, he received his education from Ascension Catholic School in Melbourne, Florida. In 9th grade he transferred, after successful graduation from Ascension Catholic, to Melbourne Central Catholic school. It was at this time that Elden created the company Xeroware Software. Creating one of the first, if not the first, usable news aggregators was one of his first real programming achievements. Elden ran the "Digital Illusions" BBS while in high school, and assisted Alex Rudloff with running his online service, "Online Illusions."

After high school, Elden further refined his programming skills. He learned the C, C++, and C# programming languages. In addition, he was well versed in many web based markup and scripting languages, such as HTML and JavaScript. In 2003 he created the SlashGrabber program, which allowed users to receive news from the popular slashdot.net technology related news site on their desktop(s) without opening their browsers. In 2004, Elden further demonstrated his knowledge of computer programming and scripting by creating a Content Management System (CMS) and social netwokring site from scratch by himself for the theperfectspecimen.com domain. He then went on to create a GNU/Linux HTTP file fetching utility named wgrab, which became the basis for a proof-of-concept package management system known as SMACK (Source Managed Application Compilation Kit.) While SMACK never became production ready, wgrab has found a home in many embedded devices and applications. In 2005, Elden began development of a emotion based game engine, which he termed "Relational Emotional Matrix Permutative Reactionary Engine." Elden has been quoted many times and his comments can be found in many public message boards, forums, and mailing lists across the internet.

In January of 2009, Elden lost his job with the Circuit City corporation due to the imminent closure of all of their stores and impending bankruptcy. In a vicious economic situation, he was unable to find work for many months. Then, on November 2nd, 2009, Elden began his career with Tropic Wave Multimedia, Inc. as Site Administrator and Webmaster of more than 10 unique domains.

As of February, 2010, Elden has begun work on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and iPhone development and released two sites designed for Tropic Wave Multimedia, Inc.