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OllieMulti-disciplinary background, with experience in financial, creative, software and communications firms. Releases the power of information through structured information architecture, providing the data models allowing firms to improve their information flow and visibility. Improving marketing efficiency by crafting metrics to display ROI and breaking down user journeys.

An expert in marketing, information architecture and online strategies, clients have benefited from improved organisational data quality, enhanced internal and external communication and improved information lifecycle management..

Specialities

Management skills: Organisational Change, Internal Communications, Change Management, Information Architecture, Online Marketing Strategy, Social Media Strategy.

Expert technical skills: Data Modelling, Data Warehousing, Metric Generation, User Journey Profiling, Object Relationship Modelling, Framework Construction, Web Programming (PHP, PEAR, Zend, PECL), Rich Application Creation and Deployment (MVC, RAD, ORM, OOP), Database Architecture (MySQL, Oracle, PDO, ODBC, Replication)

Recent posts

Choosing betweeen Mootool and jQuery

Published on 25th January 09 by Ollie Maitland

A question I often get asked is whether Byng uses the jQuery JavaScript library and another popular follow up question is why not. Source of much self reflection and questioning I often found myself wondering why I don't feel at home with jQuery as much as Mootools. That is until I read an excellent blog post on Clientcide explaining some of the theory behind Mootools.

Without summarising the article (which makes some generic points applicable to many JS frameworks) several key points really stuck out and apply aptly to Byng's company philosophy on software development.

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Tagged with : javascript, mootools, jquery

MooTools 2.0 JavaScript framework on its way

Published on 30th September 09 by Ollie Maitland

Probably the most important part of that post is that link to a decent MooTools date picker (or calendar) as this has been so lacking. Enter (weird name) MonkeyPhysics who has developed a slick object orientated component.

Until the MooTools Forge materialises there are a handful of plugin sites around to find your widget: http://www.esteak.net, http://www.clientcide.com or http://www.mooforum.net

At Byng Systems we have our very own MooTools repository but I'm afraid until the day arises that is not under GPL and remains under lock and key (hint: or on our public web applications!).

Back to the Aptana workbench for some more web application development on our new product, Contractiva...

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Tagged with : javascript, mootools, jquery, javascript