About Badu

September 1st, 2007

Wellcome visitor!

My name is Bogdan Dinu, I’m from Romania (Galati). I’m NOT a technical evanghelist for Adobe if this is what you’ve imagined…

The name Badu comes from Septerra’s Core game (a weird character), but also represents the acronym of my name (BogdAnDinU). The story behind my nickname is simple: the are a lot of people named Bogdan arround me, so when they would refer to me, the always use my nick name – it’s short and usefull.

It’s hard to talk about me, not because I don’t know myself, but mainly because I wouldn’t know what to say first.

I probably should begin with my skills, or with my background, isn’t it?

I’ve started enjoying the presence of computers at the age of 14 (I’m almost 30 now), back in the age of Sinclair Spectrum. I’ve learned back then all the way from schematics and algorithms to machine code (assembly language). I still have a pleasant feeling when I think about those times and I’m pretty sure that assambly language on Z80 means a lot to a good programmer’s training.

I’ve learned pretty much everything that was necessary, running through: Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, various database environments, various graphic creator programs (such as Adobe PhotoShop, or Corel Draw). I’ve discovered Linux in 2000, when it was pretty hard to understand and use it’s power. Back then Linux brought to my attention PHP, MySQL so I’ve learned them quickly. In the same time I’ve started learning Flash (it was the version 5, still under Macromedia’s name).

On my first website (which was made in Flash, of course), I’ve worked 2 weeks, after 8 months of learning from masters (I still think that the russian’s are the best in coding and optimizing code). Meanwhile, I’ve created a lot of stuff, print-media, presentation CDs, website using all kind of technologies but always returning to Flash.

This year, in March, I’ve discovered Flex and the beauty/power of it made me it’s slave. Before Flex I’ve encountered all sort of problems trying to apply the best of my knowledge to the projects I’ve worked on. Flex solved all, but created new ones, which I’m sure will solve in time.

Since then, back in March 2007, I’ve done nothing but Flex and I’ve promised to myself that I will keep doing Flex works.

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