Web Development and Software Geek
>> sudo apt-get install geek programmer system-designer testing-zealot api-fanboy devops
If you're looking for an experienced and professional developer I might be able to help.
Whether you have an existing project and require extra hands, or have a small project that requires one good developer then do get in touch.
I have a thing for developer tools and development process. Anything to speed up common tasks and improve quality. Software best practices applied to web design and development if you will.
As your team grows, or starts work on more complex applications, these tools and techniques will help you to maintain your high standards.
I'm a professional and experienced web developer based in Cambridge, UK with a passion for agile web and software development.
I've also spoken at a number of high profile web design and technology conferences over the past few years, including: Xtech, Highland Fling, Bamboo Juice, DIBI, FOSDEM and PuppetConf in Portland.
Work on a new single domain for the UK Government. I've worked on RUby development, confguration management, deployment and automation and monitoring setup.
Clojure based dashboard showing the latest builds from a particular Job. Particularly useful in environments using parameterized builds.
github.com/garethr/jenkins-build-list
The Vagrant virtualisation management tool has become a big part of my toolbox, and this site aims to help the community find stable base boxes to use with it.
Part of the awesome FreeAgent team building friendly accounting software for freelancers and small businesses.
Weekly email newsletter currated by me, filled with links to interesting devops content
EventMachine based app using websockets to allow executing a command on the server and seeing the output in a browser.
List of recommended reading for people interested in devops. Build using Ruby and hosted on Heroku using the Amazon products API.
An appengine based twitter aggregator for all things #devops.
Part of a team responsible for maintaining existing legacy software while rearchitecting and building new business systems which can scale as the company grows.
Part of the team responsible for the relaunch of the Capital Radio website, including development of the bespoke content management system built using Django.
Long running personal blog featuring a number of popular articles on web design and development.
Currently running on a nanoc3 based content management system served using Nginx.
News aggregation platform designed to consolidate syndication of third party news content to internal sites at Global Radio. Features JSON and XML endpoints as well as a message queue interface. Also required writing a NewsML parser.
Message queue backed script runner. Aimed at providing a simple interface to run and track the status of commands running on remote machines.
Personal image hosting service built on App Engine. Used for hosting images on this site as well as my blog.
github.com/garethr/appengine-image-host
Simple example application using a instant messaging bot, done as an example well before Google launched the XMPP additions to App Engine.
PHP based site, using the symfony framework, for tracking birthdays, mainly via a personal RSS feed and API.
This site uses a few bits of CSS3, including RGBa colours. Sorry about that.