head Conference Q&A with Aral Balkan

Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Frances Berriman Published on October 7, 2008 Digital Web: Hi Aral and welcome to Digital Web. Could you tell us a little bit about who you are and what your background is? Aral Balkan: Hey, thanks for having me! I always find this a hard question to answer. I want to say so many things—designer, developer, programmer, speaker, actor, singer—all things that I love to do and, quite miraculously, love to do. I’ve been programming since I was about seven years old, when my dad brought home my first computer, an IBM XT Compatible, which had a whopping 640KB of RAM at a time when Bill Gates was telling us that we’d never a byte more. I grew up loving theater and performing and starting singing while at high-school. That part of... [read full story]