I am currently working as a Technical Lead for DevProducts Pty Ltd. I’ve been in the Web Development game for quite some time now (since 2000). Skimmed the surface of Web Development at SIT where I studied and then pursued a career of being a mostly auto-didactic Web Developer.

Web Development

I have a solid understanding of most of the Web related languages, but I specialise in PHP. I use PHP frameworks and tools like Zend Framework, Joomla CMS and WordPress. Just recently I’ve taken an interest into Domain Model Programming and have invested some time into learning and using the popular ORM library Doctrine 1.2.

I absolutely understand Object Oriented Programming and think it’s a great concept – I have studied it closely and have developed several successful projects using it in the past 5 – 6 years of my career as a web developer.

I love this stuff and get consumed by it. For instance I am currently investigating how I could create an absolutely Database/Data source agnostic model layer (those that do not have to extend base classes which are active records et al) so that my models are not tied down to an ORM or a database in general.

Other facets of Web Development I enjoy being involved in are Database Design front-end development with JavaScript (with Dojo), beautiful, valid, cross browser compatible X/HTML and CSS with very few hack tricks (such as the ie conditionals of course).

Linux

I was introduced to the Linux OS by one of my colleagues in the year 2006 and haven’t looked back since – I’ve been using Ubuntu as my Desktop OS since then and have implemented several Ubuntu Server Edition installations for our Archive, Staging and Development servers complete with samba shares so that my non-linux using colleagues can access the files regardless of their OS.

I currently use Ubuntu Desktop and Server and maintain several of our Red Hat EL 5 servers. Recently, I’ve installed Arch Linux on another laptop which I aim to set up one day (currently stuck at USB network card config).

Reader Beware – I could be wrong from time to time

Finally, a quick warning – Reader beware (but you already know this) – not everything on this blog (or any blog for that matter) should be taken as is. Take the topics and advice in my blog posts with a grain of salt and please, do your own research.

As much as I’d like to get things right all the time, I most certainly will be wrong from time to time – I’m a realist like that.