About Me
I have over 6 years of combined web and windows application development experience and an extremely diverse, unique set of skills:
Frontend development: focusing on the user interface and typically working with technologies such as JavaScript , JScript , ActionScript , CSS , and the DOM .
Backend development: focus on the interaction between server-side frameworks and databases .
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML): for creating interactive web applications, typically using a combination of:
- XHTML (or HTML) and CSS for formatting and displaying information.
- The Document Object Model (DOM) accessed with a client-side scripting language , JavaScript to dynamically display and interact with the information presented
- Asynchronous communication with a server using the XMLHttpRequest function
- XML or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) although any format will work, including preformatted HTML. These files may be created dynamically by server-side scripting, PHP, CFML etc...
Tools of the trade
- Development tools: Adobe: Air, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere, Photoshop; Microsoft Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer; NetBeans IDE
- Server-side languages/frameworks: PHP , ASP.NET , JavaServer Pages , ColdFusion
- Coding environment: Client-side coding: JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript; Markup Language: HTML and XHTML, the Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
- Data storage: Descriptive text such as XML , JSON , preformatted HTML, plain text
- Database Management Systems: Access, SQL Server, MySql