User:Nion
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[edit] General Information
Nion is the Internet alias and real-life nickname of one John T. Settino. He is a 26 year old male (born 3/9/1986) residing in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
[edit] Schools
Freetown Elementary School (Pasadena, MD): 1990-1997
Marley Middle School (Glen Burnie, MD): 1997-2000
Old Mill High School (Millersville, MD): 2000-2002
Chesapeake Sr. High School (Pasadena, MD): 2002-2003
Anne Arundel Community College (Arnold, MD): 2004-2006, UNIX/Linux System Administration
[edit] Hobbies And Interests
[edit] General
In his spare time, he plays guitar, PC games and does freelance website and graphic design.
[edit] Music
[edit] Instruments
His interest in playing music began at an early age, and formal training began in approximately 1994 on the Alto Saxophone. Since then he has been self-taught on many other instruments, including but not limited to Alto/Tenor Saxophone (prefers Jazz music), Guitar, Drums and Keyboard/Synth.
[edit] Bands
He has played in a number of local bands in Maryland, including:
- Drums in PoGo (2001)
- Changed name to Blackberry Crush (2002)
- Guitar/Vocals in ATUM (2002)
- Guitar in AngelWrath (2003-2005)
- Guitar in Tomorrow I'll Try To Yield (T.I.T.T.Y.) (2006-2008)
- Changed name to A Break In Chaos in 2007; broke up 6/2008, returning to play shows in 10/2008
- Guitar/Vocals/Programming/Synth in his solo project Sunday Of The Abstract Static
[edit] Computers
[edit] Early Years / Introduction to Computing
His adventure in computing began early, with a Commodore 64. Later, followed by DOS machines and/or Apple IIe machines in late Elementary and early Middle School years. Save the early Apple IIe Macs, he has been an exclusive PC user since the mid-1990's.
[edit] Progression in the design world
Early In 1999, he began coding and designing his first websites in Microsoft Publisher 97. His graphic design beginnings came thanks to Adobe Photoshop 4 and Ulead PhotoImpact v4. Gaining design and coding knowledge, he went on to learn the HTML markup language by hand (currently uses XHTML Transitional) and continues to use it heavily to this day. In 2001, with guidance from friend Jesse Briggs aka Sejje, he began learning and utilizing PHP combined with MySQL. Since then, it has become his primary backend web language--his stubbornness prevents him from learning other, now popular languages such as Ruby on Rails, though he has dabbled with things like AJAX. With his coding expertise he has been the brains behind a custom web store framework (SirenStore), an unnamed blog framework (see his personal blog for a working example) and most of the code driving Social Networking website WhatEgo.com.
[edit] VISFX.NET: From personal website to company
In 2001, he acquired the domain name visfx.net from online acquaintance Mike aka nepo for the price of $25. From 2001-2003, visfx.net remained a personal website for John himself. In 2005, he partnered up with friend Steve Wileman of Half-Life 2 gaming community/clan "Snark Cafe". VISFX.net then ceased to exist as a personal website and was transformed into VISFX Enterprises, a new joint venture webhosting company. VISFX Enterprises is still in operation.
[edit] sirensound! design
Having been designing websites and graphics for clients for at least half a decade (a popular choice for Maryland local bands throughout 2002-2003), John decided to put a name to his skills and in 2005, decided on the moniker sirensound! design. The name was taken from the lyrics of "The End Wasted", a song by now-defunct Maryland local band A Perfect Kiss. The lyric is as follows: "My chariot is growing tired of all this hopeless, siren sound."
[edit] Skill sets and application/framework preferences
- He designs graphics primarily in Adobe Photoshop CS2. He codes text by hand; his preferred GUI editor is UltraEdit 32. His preferred console editor is the Debian GNU/Linux version of nano.
- His programming language skill set includes HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Visual Basic, BASH and C, though he rarely uses the last 3.
- Windows Operating System of choice: Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2
- Linux Operating System of choice: Debian GNU/Linux.
[edit] Computer
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6850 3.0ghz
- EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard
- 2 x PNY nVidia geForce 9600GT graphics cards (SLI mode for gaming)
- 4GB (2x2gb) Corsair DDR2 800 RAM
- Western Digital Caviar Hard drives: 400/320/750/1000GB models
[edit] Links
You can read more about him and his life by visiting:
| Personal Website: | nion0.com (now defunct) |
| Blog: | johnsettino.com |
| Design Company: | sirensound! design |
| Hosting Company: | VISFX Enterprises |
[edit] Contact Information
| AIM Screenname: | johnSettino |
| E-Mail Address: | john at john settino .com |
| MySpace: | http://myspace.com/4509632 |
| WhatEgo: | http://whatego.com/9 |
| RealPics: | http://realpics.net/John |
