About
I’ve been employed professionally in the web industry since 2000. I’ve worked on all kinds of applications; from internal Enterprise applications, to a variety of public facing sites.
Like many I started with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Then I became proficient in ASP and PHP. Since early 2005, I've been doing 95% of my work with Ruby on Rails.
Open Source Contributions
I use open source software quite a bit, and hope to become more involved with a few projects in the coming months. However, I have found time to make a few contributions, mostly Ruby/Rails related.
I started the
initial rhtml.xml
file that provides syntax highlighting to editors using KatePart (eg, Kate, Kdevelop, Quanta Plus).
The file is
currently distributed with KDE
thanks Richard!).
I’ve also started work on the DTEP files to provide other Rails features to Quanta Plus.
I have also contributed patches to Rubygems such as amazon-ecs, and released the generate_sitemap plugin on agilewebdevelopment.com (a rake task that crawls your site and generates a sitemap.xml file)
In the near future, I plan on contributing to the rhtml syntax highlighting file for GTKsourceview based editors (eg, scribes, and gedit) as well.
Find me elsewhere
I participate in a ton of mailing lists for various open source projects,
but I'm somewhat of a lurker in the online communities.
I do try and lend a helping hand when I can though.
I spend more time working and reading, than chatting it up on IRC, forums, lists, etc.
