Well, I program every day at work!

Besides that, I've mostly been involved in algorithm programming competition, such as IOI, ACM, TopCoder and Google Code Jam. They are great fun, and also improve your programming technique quite a bit. I believe quite a lot of people in the software industry underestimate algorithm and programming technique, and focus too much on software development processes.

I've also done some game programming on the Nintendo Game Boy. During my TI-time, I coded the Game Boy Color (partly in cooperation with Icarus Production and then moved on to the Game Boy Advance when it came out. I spent a year or so during my university time working on a commercial GBA game, Fila Decathlon which was developed by myself (all programming) and another guy who did the game design and all graphics. That was great fun, but I don't think I will do any commercial game developing in the future.

Obviously programming is my main hobby...and in particular problem solving and similar stuff requiring analytical thinking. I also play chess quite a lot at tournament level (my FIDE rating is 2128).

I work at a Swedish startup company, Elucidon. I won't bore you with what we do, but it's really cool stuff so feel free to visit our homepage for more info. I'm mainly involved with backend stuff, databases and performance optimization.

I'm not that up to date with what happens in the TI community. I check ticalc.org once a month or so, but that's about it. Maybe I'm blind, but the community seems a bit lacking. I mean, people do all kinds of cool TI games obviously, but I don't see the community.

I see people write a lot in the forums, but I never read those (on any site, not just ticalc.org). Lets face it; the people who have anything interesting to say don't say them in forums because they're just full of ****sh**. That's why you have news items, and editorials. Speaking of which, why isn't there a regular editorial on ticalc.org, or have I just missed it? I don't think the newsletter (which I receive) is a good substitute for that.

If the forums are the community today, then I'd say it's a lot worse.

Without a doubt the best thing about the community is the very reason it exist (I think): the birth of ZShell. And then it continued with Fargo etc. The whole "underground" culture was just plain cool. Also there weren't so many people doing asm programming in those days. A community that is too big isn't a real community imho.

When TI started to support assembly programming, it took a bit fun out of it actually. I don't know, maybe that was the start of the decline of the community.

I also suspect the community has also grown a lot. There are a lot more who develop programs today. I suspect the whole TI-"community" will (if it hasn't already) grow towards how things are done for Pocket-PCs (though hopefully most stuff will be free!)