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Meet John Balestrieri
The life of a REALbasic software consultant
Issue: 4.1 (September/October 2005)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: John lives in New York City and runs Tin Rocket Consulting (
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Article Length (in bytes): 15,047
Starting Page Number: 14
Article Number: 4109
Related Web Link(s):
http://www.tinrocket.com/
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You've done some high-profile projects with REALbasic. How did you get into computer programming?
I grew up in New Jersey and my education, from grammar school through college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, always leaned toward art and design. It was only after college that I seriously took up software design and programing.
However, I first knew that I wanted to work with computer and computer graphics as far back as the fifth grade, after seeing a demonstration of the Apple II in math class. The demo consisted of a BASIC program written by the teacher's son which animated the drawing of a fire truck. As it started to run, that was the moment I became hooked.
Over the years I used many of the high level development environments (AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple II, TGS Basic and AC/BASIC for the Apple IIGS, MicroSoft Basic, HyperCard and SuperCard for the Macintosh, and Prograph) before hearing about a great new IDE called CrossBasic. CrossBasic, as it turned out, was everything I had been looking for for years and finally finding it was a great relief.
What did you use it for initially?
Over the years I had played around with writing simple 3D graphics applications, even using HyperCard to write one. After a period of learning the language, I started to write another 3D graphics application. This time however, I felt I could do it right by developing it in a fully object-oriented environment.
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