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about me

originally from the north-east of england, and having travelled via bristol, canterbury and croydon, i am now based in the south-east where i work as a freelance web/application developer.

i have been working as a professional web developer since the beginning of 2000 - when font tags were still cool and DHTML menus were going to be the next big thing - experiencing both agency and in-house environments. as a result, i have a broad skillset which includes asp, cold fusion, xml and actionscript, as well as knowledge of a number of design related tool such as photoshop, fireworks and illustrator.

however, my real skills - and passion - lie in writing structured, accessible and standards compliant xhtml code, using advanced css presentation techniques. alongside that i am javascript's biggest fan, and enjoy creating complex, compact and efficient javascript elements and applications, some of which can be accused of being ajax. and finally, like many developers who originally used asp, cold fusion, etc, i have fallen madly in love with php, building - amongst other things - bespoke content management systems.

when i'm not being a sad geek, i question what evil i must have done in a past life as i travel to yet another newcastle united match, home and away, and tell myself again that this will be the last year that i buy a season ticket.

what time remains is usually spent explaining to my t'wife that i had to buy 'insert-gadget-name' because i wouldn't be complete without it.

as if all of that wasn't enough ...

  • i'm registered linux user 407552, yet i've never read a terry pratchett novel. my flavour is fedora.
  • don't ask why, but i'm a graduate of the british institute of innkeeping and holder of the national licensee's certificate.
  • i've been 'used' by both sky sports and bbc's match of the day to epitomise the typical suicidal, not-won-anything-for-over-50-years, why-us? newcastle united fan. the footage they've used shows me sitting alone, head in hands in wembley stadium after our fa cup semi-final defeat in 2000. no, i wasn't crying. honest.
  • i once made ian "beefy" botham a beef sandwich. he ate it all.

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