Hello everyone!
I'm a long time lurker of gamedev.net and have been visiting this site since 2004 or so. (I remember the hockey MMORPG thread.) My journey into game development started a few years before that when I bought the game development language Darkbasic Profesional. After messing around with that language and creating a couple of tiny games with it, such as a minesweeper clone, I realized that Darkbasic Professional isn't suitable for larger projects. So I transitioned to C++ and promptly became mesmerized by all its many features. Needless to say, I wrote some really awful macro-ridden code. More or less trying to reinvent my own language within C++. Thanks to the existing posts about coding style on gamedev.net and the book C++ primer, I was able to greatly increase my proficiency with C++. During this time I also discovered the website of Tom Sloper, which was a great motivator. I was quite happy when I saw that he had become a moderator on this site.
A few semi-finished games later I managed to land a job at game development company that developed games for the iPhone and Android devices. I had a great time there, the colleagues I worked with were wonderful and the game we worked on was coming along very nicely. Unfortunately when the game was finally released it didn't do well enough and the company fell apart two years after I started. During the last months at that company I did become rather fond of the Python programming language and started to develop my projects in it. This turned out to be a good choice because, about half a year later, it allowed me to get a job at a high tech company were I now have been working for almost two years.
So, after all of this, why am I joining now? Well I want to join the Week of Awesome 2. I unfortunately just missed it last year and promised myself that I would join this year.
Happy coding 
