Open Source

I’m an advocate of the open-source software model and have developed solutions for a large variety of clients including small businesses and blue-chip companies.

Projects

Most of my work involves internal data management, using web technology to model and assist business processes.

I have also developed a successful public-facing ecommerce site, developed from the ground up in Ruby on Rails.

Languages

Things are always changing of course but here’s a snapshot:

• Ruby / Ruby on Rails – around 90% of application development over the last 12 years has been with Ruby on Rails (specifically versions 2, 4 and 6)
• SQL
• PHP
• Perl
• Javascript
• HTML5
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• C / C++
• Pascal

And here’s some other’s which I’m currently experimenting with:

• Node.js + React.js
• Elixir / Phoenix – Elixir is a functional language with a Ruby-esque syntax which runs on the Erlang VM, Phoenix is a web application framework written in Elixir
• Python / Django – Python is an object-oriented language, Django is a web application framework written in Python
• Rust – a C-like programming language, application frameworks include Iron and Rocket
• Go – another C-like programming language, this one is backed by Google

Related Technologies

I have used the following extensively in production:

• Docker – a software containment, collaboration and delivery tool, it automates the repetitive tasks of setting up and configuring run environments
• Nginx – a high performance load balancer, web server and reverse proxy
• HAProxy – for load balancing
• MySQL – a popular open-source relational database management system