Working With Rails

things I do

• business information systems: data analysis and visualisation, Content management systems, procurement, sales/ordering, accounting, communications
• Web mashups
• mobile apps (Android)

I support individuals and teams of developers through varied formats of coaching; working with teams of developers towards a goal, facilitating group training, design sessions, one-on-one coaching (pair programming, code review)...

languages

ye olde C# (.Net) / Java / all things www / SQL

present Ruby / Rails / Haskell / Scala / Nosql (Redis)

design influences

Eric Evans / Domain Driven Design

Edward Tufte / Information Visualisation

interests

I have a penchant for de-centralised architectures, social software (self-organising and collaboration), Location Based Apps…

about me

I live near Cape Town and work as a freelance software designer, developer, and coach. My formal training was in Mathematics (MSc) and Computer Science (BSc).

gurus gautama et al, lao tzu, ken wilber, kurt godel, roger penrose, jared diamond, douglas hofstadter, proust…