What I do

• PHP / MySQL development.
• Implementation of HTML / CSS designs.
• Javascript front-end / UI work.
• Debugging cross-browser implementation issues.
• Simple UI and site design.
• Python / Plone implementation / customization.
• Just about any sort of web development / design / implementation / troubleshooting / fixing / geekery you might be able to think of.

Development Philosophy

• Enhanced UI bells and whistles are awesome, but the site should still work in any browser, including Dillo or Lynx. I use javascript to enhance user experience and functionality, but always take care to make sure sites degrade gracefully and aren't dependent on the enhanced functionality.
• I write semantically-marked up, clean, acessible HTML files with CSS to present layout and formatting across browsers.

Specialities
(it really is an acceptable form of the word)

Among other things, I specialize in

• HTML and CSS - sometimes trying to push the limits of CSS; liking, when I can, to favor figuring out the "correct way" as opposed to just "the easy way" to do things (within reason)
• Form processing done right - it can take a lot of work, including:
  • *Server-side* data validation - a cursory evaluation of security reveals the folly of relying solely on client-side validation
  • Combining server-side data validation with client-side validation for convenience, ideally including:
    • Good client-side validation, to optionally include AJAX where it makes sense to talk to the server
    • Inline display of errors
    • A good framework to handle it all on both server and client sides
• HTML email done right
  • Multi-part emails with text alternatives
  • Testing in multiple email clients to ensure communications come through well to intended target audience
    • Email client tracking to identify which email clients to prioritize
  • Customer Open and Click-through tracking

Interests

Things I'd be stoked to work more on / learn more of:

• Agile Development Methodologies, Test-driven development
• AJAX and rich UIs (degradable, of course)
• Building sites with mod_python
• More CMSes, more ecommerce systems
• Creating new cool web apps.
• iPhone and other (Android, Blackberry, etc) mobile application development
• Optimizing web pages for mobile use
• Flash
• * Singing and playing my ukulele, drums, and bass :) *

Programming

I love coding more than anything else (development-wise) and am always interested in finding programming work. Got something you need coded? Contact me. Steady programming work, even better.

I consider myself fairly proficient in the following languages:

• PHP
• Javascript
• Perl
• Python
• WxWidgets (cross-platform GUI library)
• Visual Basic

I have more limited experience with:

• C++
• Others