I have a BSc degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Birmingham University, as well as over ten years experience in developing for the Web.
I still have a hands-on role at 3form, and when I’m developing something I’m most comfortable working on my Mac using open source software, platforms and components.
The majority of my web projects are built using PHP and MySQL using a variety of open source systems (WordPress, 4Gallery, my own software 3edit or third party systems such as the brand new _Underscore.
I am currently developing some exciting systems using Ruby on Rails, so watch this space.
In the past I’ve dabbled with Microsoft-based systems, and for 18 months oversaw the production of an ASP.NET 1.1 content management system. However, I’m not happy that Mac users aren’t able to develop on this platform, so we’re moving away from further development.
I’m a hand-coder so I work in a text editor to produce XHTML, CSS and Javascript in standards-compliant code. And I’m a keen ActionScripter when I’m using Flash.
Over the years I’ve worked with lots of different languages including:
Java, C, C++, Ruby, Prolog, Javascript, ActionScript, Perl, PHP, ASP, ASP.Net, BASIC, Visual BASIC, SQL, HTML, XML, XSLT, VRML, AppleScript and probably more that I’ve forgotten!