Occasional stuff on software, web development, and tech
You can view my public repositories on GitHub here or see details for some current projects here.
I’m an enterprise web and software developer in Portishead (UK).
I use Windows, Linux, and Mac. My focus is on C# and Node for work, with Go as my personal preference. I’ve also done the occasional Python (eg Flask) and Ruby (not Rails) on the side.
I currently lead agile teams of senior/mid/junior developers where I’ve introduced AWS (with EC2, ECS, RDS, Route53 and more) alongside tools such as Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, and MongoDB.
Since I started software development I’ve used (in date order) Z80, 8086, SQL, Pascal, Modula-2, Delphi, VB6, VB.Net, Business Objects, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, and Go.
I can be contacted on email@ followed by this domain name.
Good reading
Some old and some new, these have all been worth reading - particularly those at the top.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Release It! | Michael T Nygard |
| Getting Real | 37 Signals |
| Writing an Interpreter in Go | Thorsten Ball |
| ASP.NET Core App Dev - Build in 4 sprints | Timms, Paquette, Chambers |
| Node.js Design Patterns | Mario Casciaro |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Martin Kleppmann |
| Programming in Go (Developer’s Library) | Mark Summerfield |
| Eloquent Ruby | Russ Olsen |
| Pragmatic Programmer | Andrew Hunt, David Thomas |
| 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know | ed. Kevin Henney |
| Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1 | Sam Ruby, David Copeland |
| Clean Code (Clean Coders) | Uncle Bob |
| Developing Microservices with Node.js | David Gonzalez |
| Mastering Flask | Jack Stouffer |