Hello World.

Hello and welcome to my blog. Nothing really to see here right now, I'll soon be using this domain finally as something useful other than my email.

What am I gonna write about you ask? Well, I had decided to go forth on a year long venture of building a mobile app that was put on the back burner back in early Fall of 2012 called Bar Scout. I will also be writing about things having to do with web development, design, and anything really.

Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is as you can see, Josh Manders. I am a 27 (28 on May 25th, 2013) year old male from the Dubuque, Iowa area of the United States of America. I currently make my living as a web developer for my own company, Three Leaf Creative where I write PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript based websites and applications for clientele from around the world.

I have been doing this, I'd say professionally since sometime in 2006, but have been building and running websites in someway since around 2001ish. I did however take a hiatus in 2010 until August of last year, to just toy around with things and further my skills, but I am back now and I have no plans on leaving or doing anything else. I love the internet and where it's going and what it's doing.

I am a Mac user... Don't judge me. I had been a Windows user up until roughly 2009ish when I switched to Ubuntu as my preferred choice of Operating System, but then in February of 2012 I decided to take the plunge and bought a late 2007 model black MacBook and that started my switch to Apple. I had always liked Apple products but I could never justify the price.. Yes Apple products are pricey, but I also feel that they're worth the price. I currently now have a 2011 21.5" iMac with an upgrade of 32GB of RAM and an extra monitor, 2011 MacBook Pro, iPhone 5, and iPod Nano with iWatchz wrist band. I soon plan on getting a iPad for developmental reasons also.