Accepted new position: Search Engineer at Manta.com

Yesterday I unofficially accepted a position as Search Engineer at Manta.com. What’s Manta? What’s a search engineer? Why the change?

Hello, world!

public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
    }
}

I executed that program about 30 months ago. For me, it was a moment of optimism, now that Java was installed and working, I could focus on learning how to program. For my wife, it was depressing. Seeing the plain white text on the black console window highlighted how much I had yet to learn.