Sometimes my son Shea does some work for me.  He is the one at left. 

The Image has been "enhanced" by my other son Jonathan, seen at right.

It will take a few years before I think Jonathan's skills are up to par.

Shea has a site at www.newcottage.com where he does freelance graphics and web design.

He is one of the best in the business.


My daughter Magnolia is actually doing a little work for me now.


Jonathan has better things to do.

The Staff is mostly me (for now)

Name: David K. McCombs

Years Programming: Well it depends if you count the Fortran on punch cards at Sayre School in Lexington, KY. If so, then since '74;  Otherwise, since '82 while working on my bachelors in physics. I used a Commodore VIC20! 

 I subsequently went to work at GTE Testmark Labs in Lexington. My sister Margaret was working at AT&T at the time. AT&T was pushing employees to get this Unix PC, made by Olivetti with a Motorala 68010 processor, 1 Meg of RAM and a 20 MB hard disk. She got one for my Dad, and he gave it to me. The thing didn't have room for a compiler, so a learned how to do Unix Shell Scripting. I have loved Unix ever since.

My exposure to 'C' language started with a class at U.K. (my alma mater.) It continued in the lab working on some protocol analyzers and finally writing benchmark programs for GTE. C++ followed at AiC, while testing the new IBM C++ debugger for OS/2. I stuck with OS/2 through Warp, where I learned about threads, critical sections, shared memory APPC, LU 6.2 semaphores, SOM, DSOM and CORBA.  

Then it was back to Unix in the form of AIX in 1995,  consulting to Sprint in Kansas City.  This is when I wrote the first version of the Web class library.

My never completely up to date resume is here (in Word format.)