About Scott

I'm a freelance web-applications developer with over 10 years of industry experience.

• I've been working for various start-ups, small-businesses, corporates and governments since 1999.
• I'm currently contracting for Optus, based in Sydney, Australia.
• I studied Computer Science @ UTS, graduated with honors in 2002.

Work Ethic

Key points to happy coding:

• Start with the end in mind: Understand what each project is aiming to achieve. Sun Tzu wrote:

  Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

• Focus on quality: Use a toolset and process that allows you to create quality products. Be pragmatic, disconnect your ego from your code, review and adjust your approach.
• Define the smallest phase1 possible: as soon as you deploy, the plan changes. Aim for MVP for release 1, but maintain a focus on quality. And then we iterate like mad :)

The Toolbox

• jQuery, jQueryUI
• BackboneJS (and Underscore), Node.js
• SASS/SCSS, HTML5 (all the things!)
• PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter)
• MySQL, SQLite
• Play! Framework (Java, Groovy, JPA/Hibernate)
• Git (Bitbucket and github); and
• Linux (Lubuntu).

On The Radar

• AngularJS
• MongoDB
• Node.js frameworks, DerbyJS and Meteor

Other Interests

• Reading, mainly science-fiction
• Surfing
• Progressive calisthenics
• Dabbling at creative writing