2. How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?
I was bored, looked up something to do and I had visual studio installed on my PC. I did some C++ and C# things for a while. after that i got interested with it so I thought about doing something worthwhile.

3. What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?
1. Powerfull scriping C++
2. Simple is C#
3. Java and C# as it is graphical aswell, more my thing.

4. What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?
www.mickm.com for website coding and graphical designing.

5. Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?
I play guitar , and play drums. I want to be in a band, but  I mainly play it because it makes me relax at. I mostly just play songs I've learnt, sometimes I think of some. For the rest I do photoshop designing aswell (websites, logos, ect)

6. Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?
I say I run both, since I got an Mac just last week, its an old one from a friend of mine. But its working like a charm, and I use it for photoshop.

7. What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?
Photoshop (its the best program ever, it works SMOOTH , its part of my income )

8. What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?
Notepad , Visual studio and thats about it

9. When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?
I started of making a website on a free host, and started promoting on that. Also I got some people (that has their own companies) as they needed some graphical stuff. (menu cards for restaurant , website for restaurants and for some small bands here around the house).

10. What was the first coding job you ever got?
Making a program for a company. It was a graphical web browsing enviroument that was for intern intranet use. This worked out pretty good, though I made some other versions afterwards.
11. Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you're twitter, portfolio or other?

www.twitter.com/markrozier
www.markrozier.com <-- keep in notice, its going to be up in a month.

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1. First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of your life? Where you live, what you do?

I was born in Central NY and moved to Rochester, NY to attend college at Rochester Institute of Technology. There I studied Graphic Design and graduated with a BFA in 2001. I am the Creative Director at Fuel Brand Group where I am responsible for all of the design and the general creative direction of the Fuel Brand Group and its network of sites.

2.How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

I’m not really a coder, I’m more of a designer. I’ve jumped into bits and pieces of it but I don’t consider myself a coder by any stretch of the imagination. I save that for the experts!

3.What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I enjoy English the best I’m also a big fan of JQuery.

4.What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I recommend Fuel Your Creativity, Design By Grid, Six Revisions, Web Designer Wall, and PatternTap.

5.Do you have any other hobbies? If so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

I enjoy hardworking because it gives me the chance to clear my head, so more ideas come to me!

6.Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

Mac…because apple kicks ass.

7.What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

Photoshop because 1) ease of use, 2) &3) Because I wouldn’t be able to do my job without it.

8.What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

The little coding I do is usually done in TextMate and CSS Edit. They just work for me.

9.When you first started out, how did you promote yourself?

When I first started out I dove into the blogging community and got my name out there by commenting. Twitter has also helped promote me and my sites.

10. Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you’re twitter, portfolio or other?

Twitter: http://twitter.com/adellecharles
Fuel Brand Group: http://fuelbrandgroup.com
Fuel Labs: http://adellecharles.com/temp
Fuel Your Creativity: http://fuelyourcreativity.com

1. First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of your life? Where you live, what you do?...

Sure! My name is Ben Debnam, I have been a freelance web designer for a few years now, my company is Goo Creative (http://www.goocreative.co.uk). I live in Kent, England and absolutely love what I am fortunate enough to do every day! For as long as I can remember, I have always been interested in creative topics, whether its anything design related, animation, music or building weird random stuff. However, my journey started whilst at Disney World and I was peering through the glass on the Animation Tour at what was MGM Studios, now Hollywood Studios. I'll explain how in the next question..

2. How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

I had always loved animation since a very young age (like, 20 years ago!), and when I found out about this thing called Macromedia Flash 3 I wanted to create my own short movies. I found that when I had finished, I wanted to publish my movies to the web, which got me started with Frontpage Express and a trial of Dreamweaver 3. I discovered putting my thoughts on the web in a way of visually communicating ideas was something really interesting to me. As time went on and I had my first couple of flash jobs I was becoming more interested in the html side of things and less in the Flash. I have to say, I did enjoy the design side more than the coding side and still do to this day but I found people wanted to pay me for building them websites. This at the time was strange as it was a geeky hobby of mine, could I actually make a living out of something I enjoyed?

3. What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

Well I'm primarily a designer and a front end developer, which I think is something all web designers should be nowadays. I code in XHTML, CSS, some PHP and some jQuery. I also use Expression Engine as my CMS of choice. I think CSS and jQuery are incredibly powerful. jQuery I feel is still finding its feet. There are a lot of people doing some really great stuff with it but I have a feeling there is more to come! I love the simplicity of XHTML, CSS and Expression Engine. Everything neatly fits together, if you do something stupid then you'll get stupid results (most of my IE CSS problems are where I've tried to cut corners or have been sloppy). EE has stolen my heart when it comes to doing something more than your few page static site. I'm so grateful for it's flexibility and I thoroughly enjoy working with it. My clients seem to love it too, http://www.shearsgreenjuniorschool.co.uk and soon to get an update http://www.hygienesolutions.co.uk.

4. What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I have just over 300 site feeds in my RSS Reader, most of which I use for inspiration. I currently like the tuts+ network nettuts aetuts psdtuts etc. They have some great articles. Smashing Magazine is another great one, and have some of my work featured in there a couple of times (thanks guys!). I always find Apple's site a great source for web gui, and keeping things simple! Other inspirational sites are just where ever I land that I like and then take a peek through their source code. Other sites worth checking out (design) would be ffffound and of course amazingcoders (Cha-Ching!)

5. Do you have any other hobbies? If so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

I've been a pianist since a very young age, my piano has been my life long friend. I'm also a very keen photographer! My other hobby is collecting Pixar Toys & other designer Vinyl Figures and have a couple of shelves full of Vinyls (it gets expensive!)

6. Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

Mac. For me, its a no brainer. The Mac has always suited me perfectly, I love the experience, the Apple Stores are fantastic places to be when I visit, plus I love their design. However like my friend Dan Philibin, I use VMWare with Windows XP for Cross Browser testing.

7. What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

OSX, iTunes and Photoshop. OS X because it is the nicest OS out there. I love the way it just works, looks beautiful and has really crazy awesome features. iTunes because I wouldnt be able to concentrate if it wasn't for my 600GB iTunes library. Photoshop because it is where I spend most of my daily hours!

8. What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

Coda - everything in one place, superbly built app - and the guys at Coda are seriously talented folks! I used to love the code view with built in FTP that Dreamweaver had. Coda just removed the bits I didnt need, and made it really really great to use.

9. When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

Friends of family and friends of friends. I promoted myself with a credit on each site I built. I used to talk to businesses and places I used to regularly visit and offer them a website. It was a great way to get started as you could pick and choose the work you wanted.

10. What was the first coding job you ever got?

Coding up a site for a local sheet metal firm. This was about 9 years ago and not online anymore.

11. Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you're twitter, portfolio or other?

You can find me at my portfolio, Goo Creative or at my twitter.

1. First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of you’re life? Where you live, what you do?

I'm a 21 year old Undergraduate Software Engineer studying at the University of Newcastle, Australia. I live just a half hour
away from campus in a quiet suburb called Medowie, where I have spent my entire life. I graduated secondary school with a 96.7 University Admissions Index (100 being the highest), and for the past three years have maintained an 87% mark average in my University courses. I have two brothers - one starting university this year and one nearing the end of primary school - a cat and a dog.

2. How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

It was simple really. In the days before social networking sites became popular, my mates and I decided to create a forum where all of our friends could sign up and chat. The forum was to be appended to a website with jokes, anecdotes and news from our lives in Newcastle. Although we had grand ideas, none of us actually knew how to create a website past using site builders available at places like Geocities (I feel dirty just remembering it). So I volunteered to learn whatever was necessary to ensure our site was a success. So I began my foray into the elegant and sometimes frustrating world of web markup and styling. Over the years our site fell apart due to lessening interest from its creators and the rise of MySpace and Facebook, but I was already hooked on the intricacies of coding.

3. What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

There's a fairly standard set of languages that all web engineers should be familiar with. XHTML, CSS and Javascript are the fundamentals, although any good web engineer should be very familiar with at least one server-side language. PHP is common and simple to use, but I prefer working with Java. It's more complex, but vastly more powerful, and adheres closely to the object-oriented coding paradigm that I'm comfortable with. Given a choice, I love to write applications in C++ purely because it's a more interesting and enjoyable language than Java, but C++ plays a very minor role on the Internet.

4. What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I've never used websites for coding inspiration. Often I'll stumble across a problem that requires a very in-depth search to find a solution, but I find web engineering has a solid process and thus the only area in which you can let your creativity run free is the elegance of your code. I do dabble in the design side of websites though, and there are plenty of resources for inspiration there. I suggest taking a look at the following URL, which has a set of inspiring websites broken into categories: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design-inspiration/

5. Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

When I'm not coding, my four main activities are reading novels, playing computer games, watching movies and playing cricket (Sport of Kings). I especially enjoy my novels. At a young age I read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and since then I've had a voracious appetite for fantasy series, although I do enjoy a good crime mystery. In regards to the computer games, I tend to keep returning to the classics and don't get as excited about new releases as I once did. The exception being the development of Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3. I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for those games.

6. Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

I use a PC, mainly because I'm comfortable with the user interface of Windows. I find it ridiculous that operating systems have such an avid fanbase. In the end it's just two different user interfaces, and you use the one you like best. Neither OS has any further advantage over the other.

7. What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

Adobe Photoshop. Hands down. Even though I am primarily a coder, most jobs I'm contracted to do involve taking a .psd and developing a coded template for the design. The slicing and structuring is my responsibility, and without Photoshop I would be up the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

8. What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

For simple jobs I tend to use Notepad++ because of its clean interface and good syntax highlighting. However, when I'm in need of a proper IDE I lean towards Eclipse. I have used Netbeans in the past, but I'm more comfortable with Eclipse.

9. When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

Word of mouth. I have no interest in starting a business until I've graduated from my degree, so the amount of work I get through word of mouth is sufficient. There's also plenty of forums out there where people go to request coding jobs, and if you have the ability you can throw your hat in the ring and make the client an estimate. Many of those clients will become recurring customers if you do a good job.

10. What was the first coding job you ever got?

It wa simply to take a .psd design and create a web template for the client. In fact a good deal of my jobs are simply that. There are many more people looking for markup and styling than there are looking for custom content management systems. You may consider markup and styling to be easy, but it's also easy money.

11. Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you're twitter, portfolio or other?

In short, you can't. My portfolio has been offline for a few months now, and I don't currently have plans to find new hosting. I am, however, a moderator at the MickM.com forums, so if you have any enquiries, or just wish to chat, you can find me there.

First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of your life? Where you live, what you do?

My name is Dan Philibin. I'm turning 16 this June and I have been creating websites for about four and a half years. I live in western Pennsylvania, USA.

How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

When I was 11 I started working with Adobe Photoshop, just experimenting with the tools and filters. Later I used a borrowed copy of Microsoft FrontPage, MS's old WYSIWYG editor, to create a few sample websites - again, just playing around.

I really got into it, though, and in 6th grade I built a flash website for my dad's business that eventually won me gold at the PA state computer fair for 6th-9th graders. I won gold the next year, too, but this time with a hand-coded, XHTML/CSS site that is still in use today. As you can see, I'm a really fast learner.

Eventually I got into more advanced HTML and CSS, started working with PHP and WordPress, and now I've added an intermediate level of jQuery knowledge to my ability toolbox.

What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I code HTML, CSS, and intermediate levels of PHP and jQuery (but I hardly know any actual core Javascript). I think PHP is the most powerful because I've seen so many simple and advanced things done with it.

The jQuery Javascript framework has got to be the easiest to learn because it makes so many things that would take lines of Javascript code to produce so easy, such as accordion boxes, fading menus, and more.

But to be honest, I don't enjoy anything more than just creating an HTML template. jQuery and PHP can give me headaches from time to time, but those late Friday nights and very early Saturday mornings when I'm playing Radiohead and coding away, sometimes it's just fun to forget modern, advanced page elements and make a good ol' fashioned HTML template.

What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I'm not much of a designer, to tell you the truth. I know my way around Photoshop very well and can easily point out good designs from bad, but coming up with original ideas has never been my speciality. Nonetheless, I often check out sites like PatternTap and DesignSnips to see some cool examples of what design elements are being used lately.

Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

Web development is really just one part of my life. In addition to being a high school student, I'm a committed member of the school basketball team. This helps me to stay active in ways other then dragging myself to the gym a few times a week. I also take private piano lessons, play the organ at my church, and act as assistant principle cellist in the school orchestra. I've played the piano since I was 3 and still find enjoyment in doing so.

Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

I'm a Mac all the way! I bought my first mac, a 20" white Intel iMac, in November of 2006, which is still my primary work machine. I also have a white 13.5" MacBook that sits alongside it. Of course, I run VMWare Fusion on the iMac to do IE testing when required. I started developing websites on PCs but ever since I made the switch I've loved the ease of use, application availability, and overall user experience of using a Macintosh.

What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

This is a little cheesy but I definitely couldn't live without Mac OS X. I don't think I could stand developing websites on a PC!! It's fast, it's clutter-free, it's not bloated and it doesn't slow down over time, and there's tons of great apps available for OS X.

What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

I code all of my sites in Coda. This all-in-one code editor for Mac makes it so easy for me to develop websites. It has built-in FTP, which means I can simply double-click a file, download it, open it up right there beside the FTP sidebar, and begin editing. Saving the file immediately uploads the new version right to the server and I'm ready to go. It also has built-in previewing and a great site manager.

When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

I can credit most of my early promotions to my dad. He was my first client and probably got me my next few jobs with some local people and businesses. Once I started learning how to use WordPress I think I got a few clients off the forums at Pixel2Life, got a few referrals from them, and...well, that's about it!

What was the first coding job you ever got?

My dad was my first "real" client. I was basically like, "Hey dad, I learned this Flash thingamajig program and I wanna try it out. Need a site?" My first hand-coding job was probably for a local downtown clean-up group, and that site is still up today.

Of course, my real home on the web is my portfolio and blog at DanPhilibin.com. I write articles at WPCandy, act as project manager and lead developer at WPCoder, and tweet and follow friends on @danphilibin on Twitter.

First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of youʼre life? Where you live, what you do?

Well, Iʼm Jonno Riekwel. Born in 1986 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Iʼve been a freelance website designer for over a year now.

How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

A friend of mine decided to start designing websites but heʼs almost good at everything. So I though, not this time. I started learning Photoshop etc just to get ahead. To my surprise, I liked it. After designing for a while I thought it would be smart to be able to code the sites I created myself.

What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I only code HTML and CSS. I started with PHP a while back and that went OK but not great. Once it got more difficult I thought it would be better just to focus on HTML and CSS.

What sites do you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

I canʼt of course name all 200 sites I follow but  I really recommend cssglobe.com and webcreme.com

Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

Well, I donʼt know if gaming is hobby but I spent a lot of time on my xbox. I think thatʼs gonna be over soon though. Photography is my new hobby now.

Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

Iʼve been using a Mac for almost 10 years now, but, 2 months ago I also bought a PC. (Just to check the websites in IE6 and his sucky brothers). I could  do that on my Mac but that would slow the whole thing down. Iʼve tried to code on a PC but the workflow is totally different than on my Mac. Iʼm at least 2 times faster on a Mac.

What software couldnʼt you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

CSSEdit - It speeds up the whole process. You can easily find problems, It kills some problems I have had with other CSS editors too.

Whatʼs the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

For html I use Textmate. There isnʼt an app quite like it. Itʼs fast, easy and you can do almost everything with it. You can write less to get the same result as in other editors.

When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

As a freelancer I knew enought people and could just ask around and tell them I was for hire, but before that I just randomly added people from design forums to IM and started talking to them, asking if they needed their designs coded. That got me a lot of work.

What was the first coding job you ever got?

The first coding job ever was for a friend of my mom. Including framesets, tables, font tags and marquees.

Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that you're twitter, portfolio or other?

You can find my portfolio on http://jonnotie.nl. Iʼm on almost every webservice with the username ʻjonnotieʼ. So, http://twitter.com/jonnotie, http://flickr.com/photos/jonnotie etc.

First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of your life? Where you live, what you do?

Well, I’m a 25 year old gal from Northern Ireland. I grew up with a love of art and drawing, along with a real interest in technology. In fact I remember spending hours on MacPaint on my dad's original Macintosh in the late 80's.

I went to university and studied for a degree in Multimedia Design, which covered a wide variety of interactive design and technologies. I graduated nearly four years ago and shortly after started work as a graphic designer for a local company. Concentrating so much on print work made me miss working on web projects, so after a year I started to freelance in my spare time and build up both my contacts and portfolio. I now freelance though I still have a contract with the print company which fits into my freelancing schedule, as I enjoy working within both the web and print industries.

How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

My web design knowledge before University was close to zero, I I actually remember spending a lot of time learning HTML in my first few weeks! At university we were exposed to so many technologies in the first two years (like javascript/asp/php etc) that were all so new to me, it really ignited my passion for building websites and learning new languages.

What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I am a front end developer so my main languages are; (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery and splashes of PHP.

Most Powerful: CSS drives the look and feel of a site so personally I feel its extremely powerful. With the new features in the upcoming CSS3 specification, such as advanced selectors, multiple background images, opacity, drop shadows etc its going to allow even more creative use of CSS.

Simple: (X)HTML - Its the foundation of any website and HTML was the first language I learnt. Its like an old friend now

Favourite - Im a web standards geek so it has to be CSS. I never tire of working and experimenting with it.

What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

A quick rundown of my personal favourites would be:

For sound programming advice and a great source of tech commentary I recommend Coding Horror at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog

NetTuts is an excellent resource: http://nettuts.com, with some great tutorials, tips and screencasts, its a must bookmark.

For CSS its tough to find a better place to learn new techniques than http://css-tricks.com by Chris Coyier and CSS Play by Stu Nicholl's: http://www.cssplay.co.uk

For inspiration im finding Photography and in particular Flickr groups more and more inspiring. Especially those on typography and grids such as: http://www.flickr.com/groups/thegridsystem/pool/

Elsewhere sites like Web Designer Wall:
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/, Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ and Noupe: http://www.noupe.com/ are all great for keeping up to date on trends and finding inspiration.

Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

Yes I like to step away from my mac now and again My main interests centre around art, music, movies and photography. Although im very partial to some serious Mario Kart action on the wii

Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

Well I was always a PC gal. However two years ago I tired of my clunky and ever slowing PC and bought a 20' iMac which then turned into a love affair with apple

It has made work much more enjoyable and productive and when your running your own business those two things cannot be underestimated. Although I still have my PC to perform additional browser testing.

What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

Adobe Photoshop CS4, reasons being:

1. Photoshop has been my image editor of choice for as long as I can remember, so familiarity and ease with it has to be the number one reason.
2. With CS4 the new photo editing workflow, printing options and the kick-ass Content-Aware scale, together with its fantastic 'standard' features and tools make it for me the most powerful image application.
3. I may be a geek in saying this but I actually enjoy firing up Photoshop and going from a blank canvas to fully fledged design, its the tool I use most and even after years of using it I am constantly learning new ways to improve my process and methods.

What’s the program you use to code in? What is so good about it?

Coda - As it integrates everything that I need; namely a code editor, css editor, preview pane, SSH Terminal, website management and an FTP client. The interface is not only beautiful but very clear and easy to use. I could live without it but I wouldnt want to ;-p

When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve had to do very little marketing. I submitted my portfolio site to the main CSS galleries when I released it in March 2007 which sent a lot of traffic to the site which in turn lead to enquiries and from this I started to develop an international client base (mainly USA).

I built on this by becoming involved in the web community by reading and commenting on blogs within my niche and tried to develop my brand within the community. I now attend networking events and conferences such as Barcamp, FOWA, Bizcamp etc and have been interviewed on several sites and podcasts.

Next on the agenda is to dedicate some time to building a blog and writing on a regular basis (about time I know!)

What was the first coding job you ever got?

It was for a local business and was a simple 3 page brochure site. Although the first website I built was in my first year at uni and was completely made in tables with a blue background and white text, its pretty hard to forget!

Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that your twitter, portfolio or other?

Portfolio: http://www.postscript5.co.uk
Twitter: @gracesmith
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gracesmith
Stumbleupon: http://postscript5.stumbleupon.com/
Delicious: http://delicious.com/postscript5
Lifestream: http://www.gracesmith.co.uk

What is your favourite interview so far? Who's do you prefer? (A designers or a coders?) Leave your thoughts in the comments below and be sure to sound off your answer!

First of all, Could you lead us through a brief history of your life? Where you live, what you do?

Sure. I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1984 (That makes me 24 years old). I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. I graduated from Louisiana State University in May 2007 with a BFA in Graphic Design. It was then I began working for Gatorworks Web Design in Baton Rouge. I started out there as a strictly designer. But since then, my responsibilities have grown to include not only design, but all aspects of front-end development as well.

How did you get started out on the web and what inspired you to get into coding?

When I was a kid (around 11 or 12), web design was really young. In fact, from what I understand, the first website was published only a few years before then. But I had always been really interested in art (thus my decision to study design). And around that age, I began to take an increasingly larger interest in computers as well. My interest in computers led to my inevitable obsession with the Internet. So, one day my dad bought me an HTML book to learn how to make my own webpages. And the rest is history.

What languages do you code and which one do you think is more 1. powerful, 2. simple and 3. you enjoy more?

I code in (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), ActionScript, and I'm just beginning to get going with some more PHP. 

Which one is most powerful? Hmm... that's a difficult question. Obviously PHP is super-powerful, but to me, CSS gives you the biggest bang for your buck. Just a few small changes in CSS can completely reface an entire website.

Simple? jQuery. "Write less, do more" is their motto and this amazing little JavaScript library definitely lives up to its promise.

My favorite? Currently, it's PHP. I started learning about PHP so I could develop themes for WordPress. And now that I'm learning more and more, I'm really starting to have some fun with it.

What sites you use for inspiration and do you recommend any to our readers?

For design inspiration, some of my mainstays are Design Meltdown, Fuel Your Creativity and Abduzeedo. For dev tips/tricks, I always turn to CSS-Tricks, Sharebrain, Smashing Magazine and NETTUTS.

Do you have any other hobbies? if so what are they and why do you enjoy them?

Of course I do! No one can live their whole life buried in code! When it's time to unwind, I like to shoot a few dudes on Xbox Live, watch movies, play guitar, and I really love to cook.

Do you run a PC, or a Mac, why?

I'm a Mac. I switched about 6 years ago and haven't looked back. I love the smoothness of the interface and the overall aesthetic of the applications. Since I bought my first Mac, I've always felt more productive. And that reason alone is enough to keep me on one. Oh! And the apps... 

What software couldn’t you live without and could you name 3 reasons?

TextMate (from Macromates) is running on my computer at all times. The absolute best text editor I have ever used, and its user community continue to make it even better all the time.  TextMate's numerous bundles, intuitive tab-triggers, and ever-growing usefulness make it my number one most indispensable tool. Of course, I also need to mention Transmit (from Panic) because it's certainly the greatest FTP client I've ever come across and I couldn't live with out it, either.

When you first started out, how did you promote yourself? If at all?

I actually just recently started promoting myself. Although I can certainly now see the importance of self-promotion, it was something I never seemed to make time to focus on before now. I definitely wish I would've started when I was younger. You really gotta put yourself out there if you ever want people to notice you.

What was the first coding job you ever got?

Some of the first coding jobs I ever got were tiny ActionScript projects I picked up in college. I found a great client through a site called Rent-A-Coder, and that was really where I first starting making actual money for doing the stuff I had been doing for fun all that time. Lucky for me, I still get paid for having fun.

Finally, Where can we find you on the web, Be that your twitter, portfolio or other?

My personal blog is located at http://upsidestudio.com and you can follow me on Twitter via @davidlink. Thanks!