About me
Hi, my name is Neil Robinson and I created this website for you to learn and explore the things that I have learned over the years. Please stay awhile and peruse through all my posts. Do not forget to share with your friends and family any awesome posts that you may find.
A little about me
I am a Chartered Professional Accountant who has a passion for numbers and technology.
I am also fascinated with nature. I love going out for walks in forests and trails. Each time I wander through the wilderness I find something new to discover.
Yoga is also a big part of my life. I usually practice 4 times per week or more.
This is my personal website to reflect my thoughts and to allow visitors to get a sense of me and my personal interests.
Accounting Profession
As mention above I am a CPA, I perform financial statement audits for small to medium sized corporations, governments, and non-for-profit organizations. In addition, I carry out tax compliance for individuals and private corporations.
Technology
During my teens I always enjoyed coding and programming games and I continue as a hobby completing small personal projects. I was always fascinated with being able to create your own applications. Over the course of the years I have learned many languages such as Python, HTML, SQL, Javascript, PHP, and Angular. In the past couple of years I have been working on Typescript and Angular because I recently found that Firebase handles many of the complexities of the backend and, I currently do not have the time to devote a solid understanding of backend programming.
Ideas for applications is the hardest part of programming. You have to identify a problem and be able to use software to solve it. This process is called an algorithm and they can be either simple or complex.
My thinking over the years is algorithmic in nature; my university professor for Applications of Information Technology for Business always instilled a mantra that you should never perform the same process more than twice on a computer and after the second time you should always find an algorithm and write the code to re-perform these mindless tasks which ultimately will free your time.
Nature
I always like going out for walk along nature trails within the city or in rural areas. You’ll notice many of my instagram photos are of wildlife and the outdoors. I cherish the outdoors.