Tenacious Creations started as a personal blog many moons ago. However after a short period of time it was realized that the authors life was just too boring to blog about. The blog sat idle for a long time. Then as the author started to write software again it was decided that some new life should be injected into Tenacious Creations.
Tenacious Creations is now a blog devoted to all things creative and helping its readers unleash their creativity to make a dent in the universe. This site contains tutorials that range from teaching you photoshop and blogging tricks to teaching you how to write programs. Tenacious Creations also has information and postings on interacting with technology. It may seem that at Tenacious Creations we cover a broad spectrum. However creativity also covers a broad spectrum and in order to maximize your creativity a wide range of experience is a great asset.
About the Author
Ben a.k.a TractorJack started computer programming at an early age. His first programs were written in BASIC for the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe computers.
After exhausting the capabilities of BASIC, Ben moved on to learn other computer languages. Currently Ben is fluent in ASM, Pascal, Forth, C, C++, PHP, Java, Ruby and a couple obscure machine languages. Ben enjoys the challenge of learning a new programming language and can generally learn one quite quickly.
Ben authored a few shareware programs for the Commodore 64 while in high school. These include Honest Phils Copy Utilities and the Lazarus Disk Restore tool.
Upon graduating High School Ben joined the Canadian Armed Forces as a Combat Engineer. During this time Ben served on several deployments both at home and overseas. As time overseas can be intensely boring Ben enrolled in university classes from Athabasca University. Where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
After receiving his degree Ben decided to further his education and went on to earn a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics. It was at this time Ben realized that there was not a lot of money to be made in academia.
After leaving his studies Ben worked for many different companies as a programmer, and systems administrator. He even ran a few of his own companies. It was during this time that Ben suffered a major burn out and decided to leave the Information Technology field.
Ben went to work in the Oil and Gas sector where his army training and background was a huge benefit. Being used to living away from home and in the field Ben excelled at his new career.
However computers and computer programming seem to still call him. In his spare time Ben would still write code and do some consulting but only as a hobby.
Wanting to improve his public speaking skills Ben would join Toastmasters. It was here that Ben would learn he was able to use his background in computers to help people who were less computer literate. Ben found this to be very full filling and decided that it was about time he slowly eased back into the information technology field.
Currently Ben still provides consulting to companies and individuals as well as writing custom software applications. Ben has a solid back ground in databases, database driven web sites, and embedded systems programming.
If you have a project you think might interest Ben use the contact form at the bottom of this page to get a hold of him. Ben is open to all interesting offers.
Ben is currently working on a plug in package for the WordPress personal publishing platform. These plug ins are currently being tested and he hopes to release them soon.
Want to get hold of Ben please use the contact form below.
