I currently attend Living Stones in Reno. I am a co-leader of a community group and hope to eventually become a deacon. I serve at the sparks campus on the decor team setting up and tearing down for service, and on the podcast team editing and uploading the archive podcast each week.
In the descriptions of prophet, priest, king, I most closely identify with the king and secondly with prophet. What I mean by king is that I have natural abilities to plan and manage. I also identify as a prophet in my ability to identify and communicate accurate theology, but it is most often as an overlap into king as desiring to plan for what god wants most.
I have always been a computer nerd, dating back to when I was 3 and my dad let me use his computer. When I was 16 I took a web design class and fell in love with programming, starting with the web and moving on to desktop and then mobile.
Around the same time I became a Apple fanboy and started to want to program for the Mac. Before I could really get into that, the iPhone SDK hit the scene and I have been hooked on that ever since.
My first published app was Bubble Burster. This was less about making something I loved and wanted to exist, and more about just making something. It was never very successfully, but I learned a lot from it and developed my skills on it.
My second app was Think Messenger. This one was in stark contrast to the first. I wasn't even sure that I was going to be able to publish it but I worked on it anyway because I wanted to use it so bad.
I can pick up almost any language in about a week, but the ones that I am currently profecient at include:
Currently I use my skills as a programmer for Vista International. You can also see my indie work at Think Ultimate.
I guess technically you could call me a student. I take about 2 classes a semester. I have been doing that for about 3 years and if I keep it up, I will graduate in just under 10 years.
My degree is in computer science. I am attending TMCC and will transfer to UNR once I complete my 2 year degree (that is such a misleading term).
When I was 14 I created a Gmail account. My previous email address was commanderpooppypants@hotmail.com (the misspelling was an unfortunate mistake by my older brother), but I was maturing, becoming an adult and as an adult I felt I needed a more mature adult email address. Now I am cursed with an extremely common name, hence the missing m at davidbeck.co. So, as most of my peers were adding numbers and z's to their online identity, I decided to go shorter. A username was born. For consistency I have continued to use it for every account I could get my virtual hands on, even when a better option was available.
I think it mirrors my personality. Short and to the point.
That being said, there is one place that I have yet to acquire the davbeck emblem: Words with Friends. I have been trying ever since I first signed up to challenge the impostor who forged my username to a duel so that I may spell death threats at him, but alas, he has yet to accept. Until then you can find me as david.beck.