About Me
I am a British web developer based in London, England. I’ve been working for the Victoria & Albert museum since March 2008. Here, I am designing and developing new web applications whilst maintaining and improving existing architecture.
I work with Python/Django but I have also made money with PHP and Perl.
I have years of experience in getting the best out of MySQL - ask me about replication, character encodings, database engines and full text search.
Apache and nginx are my web servers of choice. As of May 2011, they support 70% of web sites worldwide. Both are free and open source.
I love software freedom, like GNU/Linux, and spend every day trying to spread the word. Free software is the true source of innovation on the web and on the desktop.
I am a strong advocate for web standards and best practice in web development. I thrive on object-oriented design and object-relational mapping with databases.
I find AJAX- and Javascript-powered user interactions quite interesting but not at the expense of solid application design. And probably not without JQuery.
I started programming on BBC Microcomputers at school in the 80s. I once copied a rodent-based memory game Mousey, Mousey out of a library book and overwrote another program on a 5ΒΌ inch floppy which was loosely mouse-related. No-one found out.
BBC Micro, by DavePress.
I subsequently coveted several friends’ Sinclair ZX Spectrums.
More recently, away from the programming, I love working with video and have a special interest in creating high-quality video for web and mobile delivery and digital audio.
I am always happy to chat about projects and the web in general so please feel free to contact me on any of the networks listed on the menu.
