About
I’m a website designer/Rails developer and Ruby programmer based near Bath in the UK.
Hire Me
Want to hire an experienced Ruby on Rails developer? Need some Photoshop-to-HTML work doing? Want a crack Ruby coder to work on a plugin or library? See my areas of expertise listed below; email me with some details of what you need and I’ll get back to you ASAP.
Web Development
I make websites using semantic XHTML and CSS, and JQuery for Javascript goodness. I approach website design from a usability perspective, and am a bit of a findability geek (that’s search engine optimisation, or SEO; but in a good way).
Ruby
I love (and have five years’ experience with) the Ruby programming language, which is lucky for me because it means I get to work with great tools like Ruby on Rails, Test::Unit, Rspec, Rip, and Rack. I use git and GitHub for source code management. I practice Test Driven Development or Behaviour Driven Development (nearly) all the time :)
I love Ruby so much, I build my websites in it (no PHP here, although I do have some experience with it). Ruby is perfectly suited to scripting web applications, with or without Rails, and I’ve used Rack and Ruby’s CGI interface in many different projects over the years.