Who’s this crazy dude?

My name’s Thomas Messier and I’m a web application developer currently residing in Gatineau, Canada. I’ve lived in and been to so many places that I don’t even know where I’m from anymore, and that’s fine by me. To keep a long story short, I’m half canadian, half brazilian, and grew up living in many countries, namely Canada, Burkina Faso, Haiti, and Brazil. All this traveling has left an imprint on my life and has given it a distinct international flavor.

I started out as an HTML coder years ago, and web development just instantly clicked. I moved on to ColdFusion, which remains my primary server side language. I’ve dabbled in lots of stuff, including Java, .NET, ROR, Basic, Pascal, and probably others I’m forgetting. But my bread and butter remains ColdFusion, Javascript, CSS, and HTML.

I’m a soccer freak. I love to watch it, play it, talk about it. Other sports I enjoy are basketball, volleyball, tennis, and ping-pong, and I’m pretty decent at all of those. I also love the outdoors and in 2004 I completed a hike of the Appalachian Trail, 2200 miles from Georgia to Maine, one of the accomplishments I’m most proud of. I’m quite a voracious reader, enjoying a variety of styles, both fiction and non-fiction. I love to travel, and life has taken me all over the world. Finally, I’ve been playing acoustic guitar for about 7 years, self-taught.