About

I'm a UK based coder specialising in web development with Python, Django and JavaScript. When I'm not coding I like to get out and about and particularly keen on travelling. My biggest adventure to date was in South America with my lovel girlfriend (you can see the route I travelled here - all of that is by ground except one flight from Lima to Buenos Aires).

Conferences and User Groups

I am a huge fan of conferences, user groups and generally getting involved with the community. I hope to be at EuroPython, DjangoCon.eu and some other interesting events next year!

Between 2009 and 2011 I have attended DjangoCon.eu twice (once it was called EuroDjangCon) and EuroPython three times. I co-founded Python Edinburgh and also frequently attended Refresh Edinburgh while up that way. I am now based in York for six months and attend the West Yorkshire Python user group when I can.

Tech I Use

I really enjoy following the latest technalogical trends and using the latest techniques as they evolve to make my work as painless and productive as possible.

I make most of my sites with Python and Django (but not this one) and use git or mercurial to version my code. My editor of choie is currently SublimeText or Vim.

My current ideal general purpose web stack looks something like Nginx, Gunicorn, Postgres, Python, Memcached and/or Redis. However, this very much depends on the project and other tools such as Solr make a great addition. I try to automate all my systems administration work and even my local development enviroment.