Hi! Welcome to the personal blog of Jason Stirk (Griffin) - a curious young web application developer currently living in Lismore, NSW (yes, that's in Australia). I currently run my own busness - Achernar Solutions. You can hire me if you like.
These days I tend to work mainly with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, although I've also also done my fair share of work with PHP, and administrating various flavours of Linux servers.
See more about what I do at Achernar Solutions.
or, view the full archive of posts.
Seems I'm spread all over the net these days...
These are some of the projects that I'm currently involved with - either as a business venture, or as a freelancer.
Here are a few trendy folks that I know, or have worked with.
It was an awesome game, but that's not what I meant! I meant FEEDS! Of the RSS and ATOM flavours! Get them while they're still meaty!
It seems Dirk managed to sober up long enough find time in his busy holiday schedule today so as that we could meet for coffee. This was a fairly important coffee however, as I am acting as his examiner for his Expressions 2 badge - part of his Queen's Scout Award. For those that haven't been completely indoctrinated with Scouting bravado, the Queen's Scout Award is a fairly prestigious civilian award that is the highest award for the almost-adult Venturer section of the Scout movement. Lots of trendy people have received the award, including that crazy Zanchey guy. There's a lot of work that goes into getting the award, and so I wish Dirk all the best with it!
The particular task that we've set out for his Expressions 2 badge is no small job (and nor should it be) - building from scratch a CMS/intranet system for his Scout group in Ruby on Rails. It's certainly nothing to be sneezed at, and I'm confident that it will challenge him to excel in a variety of skills - not least of all being able to put up with annoying people who want to give him advice.
Anyhu, that heartwarming little campfire yarn did have a point, I promise.
Dirk probably noticed I was pretty confident and sure of what I was "teaching" him today - Building Your Web-App 101. It's worth noting at this juncture that I use the word "teaching" with little right to do so - perhaps the phrase "drinking coffee and jabbering manically about stuff" would be closer to the truth. I feel I should come clean to Dirk - I confess that I had actually already written a bit of a script to run by (and wasn't just winging it. much.). In my defense, I didn't realize at the time that "brushing up" was what I was doing. You see, I've been working on a series of posts since the weekend about precisely the topic we were discussing - the process I currently go through when building a web-application. I didn't even think of the posts in relation to Dirk's project, but I did figure that if anyone would find the posts vaguely interesting, it'd be him.
So, coming up next - what happens when I build a web-application.
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