Q. What Plugins have you developed and what do they do?
A. Here they all are:
ChatCrayon (colors chat, plays sounds on messages, filters message types),
TieTracker (keeps track of the portal/lifestone ties each character has),
LootTracker (stores aggregated statistics about the loot profiles for each monster),
FellowLink (provides fellowship members with tools to make questing easier),
FellowLinkLite (same, but without the HUD's),
ScrollReader (for reading, passing, buying, and general scroll management),
BribeTC (now outdated),
WeaponTinkCalc (now outdated).

Q. What was/is the 1st Plugin/3rd party Application you programmed?
A. ChatCrayon was my first Plugin, if you don't count my "Hello World" one, that is.

Q. What inspired you to write it/them?
A. It started when a friend of mine complained that his Allegiance chat color was the same as one of his other chat messages. I thought to myself "I could learn to do that, that's a pretty simple request." Then, as I began writing it, I kept adding more message types until it handled most all of them.

Q. What was the biggest obstacle you had/have to overcome in writing your Plugins/3rd party Applications?
A. The biggest obstacle was learning Visual Basic (I have a background in Basic, QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal, Borland C++, and most recently, PHP), and learning the Decal Plugin structure from the limited information available. I jumped right into Plugins directly, which is NOT recommended.

Q. What is your favorite language to program in?
A. Visual Basic 6.

Q. How long have you been programming in general/with Decal Applications?
A. I've been programming for a little over 20 years. I started doing Plugins a year ago.

Q. Have you felt the overall contribution of the decal programming community has been positive on the game?
A. I absolutely believe that Decal and Decal Plugins have benefited the game tremendously. I feel that the game would have died out completely at least a couple years ago without it. I mean, how many times can you really make arrows using back-and-forth hotkeys before you run screaming against a wall?

Q. What Plugins/3rd party Application other than your own, do you use?
A. Heres what I use;
Infinity, Bandit Sight/2, Universal Salvaging Tool (UST), Stoic,
Quest Timer, DHS (Decal Hotkey System), RoboChef, Sort It! and
AC Trade.

Q. What can we look forward to in upcoming versions of your Plugins/3rd party Applications?
A. I'm really not at liberty to say. Secret squirrel stuff, and all that :-)

Q. Do you still play AC and if so what Server/s do you frequent?
A. I still have an active account on Solclaim, but unfortunately I have been drawn into WoW of late. Jury's still out on what may happen once Turbine releases the "Throne of Destiny" (ToD) expansion pack.

Q. What is your favorite Plugin/3rd party Application that you have written?
A. It's a three-way tie: ChatCrayon, LootTracker, and FellowLink.
ChatCrayon because it was my first, and became so useful to me;
FellowLink because it makes questing a less stressful thing, and no one can be accidentally left behind and;
LootTracker because it was absolutely the most difficult one to pull off. That one was a Houdini octopus, trust me.