About Curtis
Spendlove. Yup. /spend/ - /ləv/ It sounds just like it's spelled. One can imagine the jokes. And I surrounded myself with friends who thought the jokes were much more humorous when we were teenagers than when we were adolescents.
I'm a husband, father, author, and coder. During the daytime I write mind-numbingly large enterprise applications to put steak on the table. When the sun sets I don my tights and cape and work on smaller, personal projects...the culmination of which have recently added a salt and pepper shaker to the table.
I don't really usually code in tights or a cape.
I first knew I was destined to write code when I shipped my first Macintosh application in the 90's. I was irritated by dying continually in Descent (a popular computer game at the time). So, I wrote Descent Saved Game Editor. DSGE followed the UNIX tradition: do one task and do it well...allow the user to hack their saved games with vastly superior armor, weaponry, and ungodly quantities of ammunition.