Dan Donald

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I work in OO PHP with development experience of Content Management Systems for a number of years. I’m currently experimenting with various design patterns, in particular MVC using CakePHP and Ruby on Rails.

For the front-end I work in XHTML with CSS. I’ve been working with jQuery recently, which is pretty amazing stuff. I can turn a design around in a couple of days with valid markup and CSS.

I’ve found myself getting into RDBMS more than I imagined with data structure overlooked in too many projects; I feel like this is the source of a good project. MySQL5 is my current package - I’m discovering more about the usefulness of views and stored procedures, which I’m hoping can really improve the back-end performance of some CMS projects along with transactions through InnoDB tables.

Early on, working with web development I spent time freelancing but most recently I’ve been Production Manager at a web agency specialising in working with charities and non-profits, working with four other developers. This can be as a developer myself realising projects from the brief through to delivery liaising with clients and working with designers and other developers as well as being in a supportive role to the rest of the team working with schedules and the like.

In terms of web development, I’m keen on performance issues from query optimisation and server/client-side caching techniques.

At university I got hooked on accessibility and usability (which ended up being my final project, applying that to open source CMS), which lead me into internationalisation. I many ways these areas are all linked and should be considered through all stages of development.

A lot of understanding these lead me into the significance of the semantic web, or at least in writing semantically correct code. Microformats fit well into this.

I feel that my interest in the social nature of the web embraces all of these things along with basic social psychology.

Dan Donald’s Specialties:

XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, accessibility, database design, social networks / social media, microformats, content management systems, MVC

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Dan Donald’s Interests:

Content management systems, accessibility, usability, social networking, social media, performance, scalability, web standards, microformats, web apps, photography, writing & performing music, filmmaking, screenwriting

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