Skills
I have a wide range of skills including computing, software and technology.
Primary Skills
| Skill | Years | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 7 | Used daily. High comfort level coding new applications from scratch, or modifying existing applications. Solid understanding of OOP. Experience with methodologies such as MVC and a variety of frameworks. Familiarity with many open source programs and libraries. Experience with e-commerce, enterprise software, content management systems, and web services. |
| XHTML/CSS | 14 | Able to create stylish, standards compliant websites. Most comfortable coding by hand. |
| Javascript/AJAX | 7 | Experience using Javascript to improve usability and style. Comfortable using the open source Prototype library, among others, DOM manipulation, JSON, and OOP. |
| Testing | 7 | High comfort level designing and testing software applications for the web. |
| SQL | 7 | Web application oriented knowledge of SQL. Lots of direct experience with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Access databases. |
| OOP | 10 | High comfort level designing and developing object oriented applications |
Secondary Skills
| Skill | Years | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Apache | 7 | Comfortable with installation and configuration on most platforms. Basic level of troubleshooting ability. |
| MySQL | 8 | Longtime MySQL poweruser |
| Linux | 8 | Longtime GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems poweruser. Familiar with many desktop and server programs. |
| Windows | 10 | Longtime Windows poweruser. |
| Apple | 20 | Longtime Apple user. |
| Flash/Actionscript | 5 | Used occasionally. Knowledge of the basics. |
| UML | 7 | Can read and create at a basic level. |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | 8 | Used for rapid prototyping before I started coding my HTML by hand, about 10 years ago. |
| Adobe Photoshop | 12 | Basic knowledge. |
Tertiary Skills
| Skill | Years | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Perl | 8 | Primarily used for desktop scripting, cgi programing, regular expressions, experience with perl web applications / frameworks, knowledge of most major concepts. |
| Ruby | 1 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with Ruby on Rails and WATIR. |
| C# / .Net | 1 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with C# web applications hosted on GNU/Linux using Apache and mod_mono / mono. |
| PostgreSQL | 4 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with server installation and configuration |
