Scott Maclure Consulting

Responsive, mobile-first web development in Sydney with JavaScript, SASS and HTML5.

Contact Me

Email: scott@maclure.com.au
Phone: +61 424 275 065
Skype: scottmaclure
Twitter: @scottydo

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

Latest Site Updates

Disabled inline resume for now. Linked to jsonme Sun May 19 10:13:59 2013 +1000
Homepage updates, and sidebar. Moved things about. Sun May 19 10:13:44 2013 +1000
Bumped git log to 10 Sun May 19 10:13:24 2013 +1000
Fixed hobbies ul. Sun May 19 09:40:39 2013 +1000
Added 10px margin to the header. Sun May 19 09:37:14 2013 +1000
Created site config file, moved navigation properties there, hooked into View::composer. Sun May 19 09:35:44 2013 +1000
Changed navigation to top_nav. Works better in mobile. Sun May 19 09:35:08 2013 +1000
Updated version of Foundation3 to latest, to get top_nav component. Sun May 19 09:34:30 2013 +1000