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I've been involved with designing and building webpages since 2003 and have worked in several exciting and varied environments over the years.
My speciality is back-end programming in a LAMP environment, but I can handle front-end stuff like HTML, CSS and JavaScript without a worry.
Oh, and I'm rather fond of Ruby on Rails too!


Blues Banter is a Facebook application for (Auckland) Rugby fans to smack-talk before the game, and then recant after the result!
A simple MVC-style system which changes it's branding based on the teams involved in the upcoming match
The Smirnoff Night Project is a Facebook application with 3 phases. Phase 1 allowed users to submit videos, which were uploaded to Youtube via the Zend Gdata API.
In phase 2 (current), 4 winning ideas were turned into real events, and these events were filmed for TV.
Phase 3 will be a retrospective gallery of the 4 events as they happened, with behind-the-scenes images and footage.
The Orcon Airpoints system was a custom-built, MVC-style archtecture which creates bi-directional communication with YouTube. The system also depends on an external API provided by Orcon
Further to the standard web interface, the content is also delivered to Facebook through an iframe application.
This project required a bi-directional communication between a flash movie and the page containing it.
jQuery was used to drive the flash from clickable HTML elements, and flash pushed changes back in the HTML through the same interface.
Hawkins was created in Silverstripe, a CMS developed in Wellington, New Zealand.
There was a lot of variance in templates, so there was a large amount of custom work to be done.
It also required a lot of custom PHP and jQuery work to produce specific core features, and was a great challenge.
This project is a straightforward Wordpress theme, with a slight twist.
The site also implemented a customised plugin to automatically regenerate content into a format suitable for mobile phones.
I have 5¾ years of commerical PHP experience and have worked on a wide variety of projects, including:
My experience covers both PHP4 and PHP5, and I've worked with both OOP-based and standard proceedurally-based code.
I also have experience working with complicated architectural hierarchies, largely due to my work with the Silverstripe, eZ Publish and Wordpress content management systems.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
I created this PDF from Why's website back in August of 2007 because I wanted a version I could read offline.
2 years later (give or take a couple weeks), Why disappeared as mysteriously as he arrived and all his various accounts and projects were shut down - including his Ruby guide.
While we're all sad that Why has gone, the good news is that you can still download the PDF right here!
* actual fun content subjective to sense of humour.
located in Hertford, United Kingdom
email-able at adrian [at] ember.co.nz
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stack-overflowing to stackoverflow.com/users/284891