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About Ollie
Web technologist with the know-how to Release the Power of Information by creating collaborative environments for staff to share effectively the knowledge within their organisations. Recipients of consultancy on rich internet applications, from inception to lifecycle support, have benefited from remodelled and renewed revenue streams.
An expert in delivering business and enterprise grade applications from recruitment software to customer relationship management to data collection and warehousing platforms. Practical programming skills are particularly strong in user interface and experience application development with the latest Web2.0 technologies..
Specialities
Management skills: Project Management, Web Systems Architect, Consultancy on Rich Internet Applications, Server Administration, System Deployment and Developer Collaboration/Management.
Expert technical skills: Linux (Redhat & CentOS), Zend (PHP, Zend Platform, PEAR, PECL), Application Layer Programming (MVC, ORM, RAD, OOP, SVN), MySQL (SQL, PDO, Replication), UI Development (JavaScript, Prototype, Mootools, ExtJS, jQuery, Flex, WebObjects, XML, JSON, AJAX, CSS, XHTML)
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.
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...
Tagged with : javascript, mootools, jquery, javascript
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