About

Hi. I’m Alice Carback. I graduated from UMBC and currently work as a Java and Web Developer for a small IT/Engineering company. I tend to use the tag line “a web developer with a gadget addiction.”

Web Development

I started developing web pages on a Windows 3.1 machine late at night in my parents basement in middle school. I continued through high school mastering HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In college, I was the school news paper’s webmaster for while. I learned PHP, some C/C++, and Java while at UMBC. More bragging can be found at my LinkedIn profile.

I love web development: scripting, programming, and design. The web is a wonderful and powerful platform for communication and community. I hope someone day everyone can have access to it and that most people will understand and appreciate the technology and methodologies that power it.

Gadget Addiction

I’m a long technology lover and fan of gadgets. I’ve been a PDA user since I was little. I don’t know if anyone remembers, but Radio Shack game out with a light blue girls digital organizer. I love it and painted it with glitter nail polish. I later upgraded to a Royal DS2080 and lived out it. I later used a few Palm PDA’s including a Handspring Visor in Orange and a Palm TX. I finally made the jump to a smartphone to the lovely Palm 755p in Burgundy. I planned my wedding with it and they had to pry it from my hands to before sending me down the aisle. I got a Centro, but only because I got tired of waiting for what later turned out to be the Palm Pre. I got a Palm Pre on launch day after calling around to Sprint stores to see who had some left.

I have been a huge support of Palm webOS. I organized the Baltimore/DC preDevCamp. I am attempting to work on a few webOS application, but haven’t quite finished one. I acknowledge that Palm is in a tough spot, but webOS is off to fantastic start. The webOS community is highly active and supportive and I’m proud to be part of it.

Side Note

Let the zealous be particularly attentive to themselves, lest, by condemning the careless, they themselves incur worse condemnation. I think the reason why Lot was justified was because, though living among such people, he never seems to have condemned them.

Saint John of Sinai, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 4, # 100, pp. 46.