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A tiny spark of wit for a highly flammable world

About

May 1st, 2006 2:26:03 pm pst by Sterling Camden

The unpredictable ravings of Sterling W. “Chip” Camden, independent software developer.

Portrait of Chip by his daughter, age 7
Portrait by my daughter

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16 Responses to “About”

  1. kristine says:

    My daughter is now seventeen. She draws nudes. But good ones. She was 18 months old when she drew her first picture. My guess, by the shapes of the digits, is that your sweetpea is about four or five, or very talented. Good luck Dad…and remember…you only go through it once! Savor every moment to remind you of how sweet she really is when she’s not so sweet as a teenager.

  2. sterling says:

    Thanks, kristine. My daughter was seven when she drew this portrait. Now she’s nine, and a much better artist technically. But I really liked this creation, it captures something about me that I can’t quite put my finger on. Geekiness, perhaps.

  3. You know, I think you are the first Camden (besides myself) I’ve found out there also in development.

  4. sterling says:

    Likewise, Raymond. Any relation? I come from the Camdens of central Virginia, who came over from England around 1700.

  5. My side of the family is in VA, but not from there originally. My grandfather, Kenneth Camden, was in the Portsmouth area I think from the 50s up till the last few years. Paul Camden also lived there till he died. I don’t remember the other great aunts and uncles.

  6. sterling says:

    Very interesting, Raymond. You might find this post intriguing.

    I see you do a lot of work with Cold Fusion. I’ve never used that myself, although I’ve used just about every other web platform out there.

  7. Nice link. I would obviously recommend you taking a look at ColdFusion when you can. I’m biased towards it, but I do truly think it is the best language for web development. It may not be OOP, but it is the most practical web dev language I’ve seen yet, and the most accesible to those w/o a CompSci degree. Ok, I’ll stop advertising now. :)

  8. sterling says:

    Heh. OK, I’ve subscribed to your EgoAddict feed. This looks more to my interest than your main site. Maybe you’ll start posting to it again.

  9. Linda Bustos says:

    Aww! That’s priceless.

  10. sterling says:

    Thanks, Linda. Thinning, don’t you think?

  11. M.S.Shine says:

    Sorry for lifting your content from techrepublic. I have deleted it.

  12. Hehe, I love your daughters’ picture!

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