James Dryden
20. Tech geek. Speaking English, HTML, PHP and learning JS. Mac, iPhone & iPad user. Blogger. Developer.
I am pretty much always online. You can find me tweeting, shouting on adn, on facebook, publishing stuff to Github, or generally browsing Forrst.
I am a web developer, with strong background in PHP (including PHP5 and a few frameworks like CodeIgniter & Kohana), MySQL, HTML (including HTML5 and CSS3), JavaScript (including jQuery), and I am currently teaching myself NodeJS (including MongoDB and ExpressJS) over here.
I’ve written some frameworks, exp0 and leaf. Both of which build upon concepts and ideals that I’ve used (and like) whilst learning web development. I’ve also written some documentation for Leaf, which you can read here.
Over the summer I’ve been working at Mindwork Labs as their Code Hero, working on the social zone of MyDeals!
I write a blog over at codewithportals.com in my free time, focusing on coding and technology. However recently I’ve been writing articles on Medium, which has been an excellent experience and I really enjoy writing using their minimal online writer.
I like to use Git & Github to host projects and code where I can, because in my opinion open code is good code (although, if stuff is private I’ve got a Gitlab instance ready to go!). I’ve also got experience in using svn, which I’ve used for several projects at University, Overheard and Mindwork Labs.
I also have a small portfolio of work, where you can read more about my projects above, plus information on previous projects and work done for others.
This site itself has a fairly minimal theme, but the structure behind the site is fairly interesting, which you can read about on the GitHub repo page for this site.