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Tweets
- @JamesDeAngelis How much was Instagram's? $0? :-) It's about the users.
- @bulletproofnet Are you seeing any network issues at the moment? I'm seeing problems doing a traceroute to http://t.co/lVSKBSMxMd
- @nginxorg Hi there… Your Wiki is still down… Been down for a few days now? http://t.co/QMAbdzh3RM
- Whale Tits… http://t.co/QMdkRYQPB0
- The Spider Web episode of Peppa Pig on repeat every morning… The harpsichord music reminds me of Ghosts n Goblins. http://t.co/MR5BitEASh
- Damn Nginx Wiki.
- Overview Effect… Pretty powerful short film about the effect of seeing the Earth from the outside… http://t.co/SIKjU4uF6Y
- "Django REST framework - REST framework 2.3 announcement" http://t.co/Dx8VHkdlEh
- Blast from the past. Spike days. Thanks @loko_bec. http://t.co/HLiNdn29Mh
- @jillastark @LaTrioli Great Link Bait though eh. That's what it seems to be all about.
- If I get a call at the office from a person I don't know and they have a UK accent. I assume they are a recruiter. Is that racist?
- Running 'Lean' in an agency… http://t.co/ZN3z6AkMUG
- Retailers Still Treat Their Websites Like It's 1997 http://t.co/IIHzpw4509
- @kripy wow, yeah well there were two good sessions on it. You would have probably benefitted from the automation sessions too.
- @kripy Was really good actually. Totally worthwhile. We already use a fair bit of AWS but there were some really good sessions on scaling.
- @netregistry Worked perfectly from home. Only thing different was using Wifi instead of the 4g Dongle. Weird. Anyway, all good now. Thanks.
- Too much coffee + not enough sleep... Tired+wired... Yuk.
- @netregistry Not working using Chrome / Mac over Telstra 4G. Times out after 7 seconds.
- Why making coding time estimates on rough specs is doomed to failure… http://t.co/o8cqbJFPK5
- @netregistry throughout the console. Times out every time. Go to Order > choose a .com.au domain and 'Add selected to cart'… Times out.
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Info
- Summary
About 14 years experience developing innovative applications and creative technology ideas for a diverse range of clients including BBC, Channel 4, WWF, Jamie Oliver, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Alexander McQueen, Yahoo! UK, Orange UK, Lion Nathan, Pacific Brands, eBay, HCF, Woolworths.
Specialties: Creative Technology, Software Development, Technical Direction and planning, Linux Administration, Technical Architecture (incl. Amazon AWS and Rackspace), Design of high performance web and mobile applications, Physical Computing and Digital Ideas.
Experience- Jun 2012 - PresentTechnical Director / Pollen Digital
Technical Direction, Application Design and Development. Linux System Administration, Design of high performance web and mobile applications.
Javascript, Backbone.js, Python, Objective-C, C++
- Dec 2011 - Jun 2012Creative Technologist / Freelance Creative Technologist
Objective-C (iOS / Mac), C/C++, Python, Ruby, PHP, Linux Sys admin. Digital ideas etc.
- Mar 2011 - Dec 2011Creative Technologist / Droga5
- Feb 2011 - Mar 2011House Husband / The Knott Family
3 weeks of looking after the little man.
- Oct 2008 - Feb 2011Creative Technologist / Holler Sydney
Leading the technology team in Holler and spending my time balancing technical director responsibilities and creative technology. I work closely with the Creative Director to bring an understanding of technology and digital strategy to the concept development process.
Stand out projects have included 'Vote Earth' iPhone application. 5Seeds, Becks UberSelektor and XXXX.
- Jan 2005 - Sept 2008Technology Lead / Poke
Worked with a fantastic team and launched award winning work for Orange, Alexander Mcqueen, Topshop, Christian Aid, Jamie Oliver, Yahoo!.
Stand out projects included Spot The Bull 1/2, Yahoo! UK property, Orange Unlimited, Orange PlayBaloonacy, Jamie Oliver 'Feed me Better'.
- Jan 2003 - Nov 2004New Media Officer / Online Manager / WWF Australia
Re-developed the WWF Australia website into a more flexible online platform. I was responsible for the design and development of its web standards compliant (XHTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL)
website. The website also featured a number of
Flash interactive pieces that I designed and developed that were aimed at educating visitors about complex environment subjects like turtle conservation and marine debris.I then became Online Manger which was a more strategic digital role aimed at building digital capacity in other parts of WWF such as supporter relations, campaigns and marketing.
- May 2000 - Aug 2001Rich Media Developer / Animal Logic
I led the rich media team at Animal Logic Interactive and was responsible for designing and developing projects ranging from animating a short series called
‘Multiverse’ for Alex Proyas’ production company’s site Mysteryclock.com - to designing a flash based email and contact management application. While at Animal Logic, I also designed an award winning pro bono art project with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and German contemporary artist Carsten Nicolai called Snow.noise. - Feb 1999 - May 2000Rich Media Developer / OVEN Digital
Developed primarily Flash / Generator based websites and applications in Sydney, San Francisco and New York.
- Jan 1998 - Feb 1999Developer / Builder / Spike
HTML Development, Javascript Development, ASP... Prototyping for Toyota, Intel, CSR, Zurich...
Education-
1993 - 1997Southern Cross UniversityBBus in Computer Science / Marketing
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Honors:IAB AU Creative Showcase Grand Prix "Uberselektor" D&AD 'in book' 'Microsite' 2008 "Spot The Bull" Creative Circle 2008 Silver 'Best Microsite' 2008 "Spot The Bull / Orange" IAB UK 'Most contagious campaign' 2007 "Spot The Bull / Orange" IAB UK 'Best Creative Campaign 2007' "Unlimited / Orange" IAB UK Creative Showcase Award December 2007 "Unlimited / Orange" IAB UK Creative Showcase Award June 2007 "Spot The Bull / Orange" D&AD 'in book' 'Microsite' 2007 "Cock-a-Doodle" London Design Week Award 2007 (Digital Design) "Cock-a-doodle" Webby Award 2006 "Feed me Better"/ Jamie Oliver (with Poke London) Webby Award 2006 "Talking Point" / Orange (with Poke London) Webby Award 2005 "Alexander McQueen " (with Poke London) BIMA 2005 "Christian Aid Week" (with Poke London) BAFTA 2005 "Alexander McQueen" (with Poke London) Netty Award 2000 "Art Category" "Snow.noise" One Show Interactive 1999 Gold Pencil "Hookt" (with Oven Digital)
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Interests:cocoa programming, physical computing, sustainability issues, eco-architecture, asian cooking, electronic music, bushwalking, fishing, surfing
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Repositories
- Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications1350 forks / 7046 watchers / Pushed May 23, 13
- Polycode is a cross-platform framework for creative code.160 forks / 1029 watchers / Pushed May 21, 13
- Library for implementing the action bar design pattern using the native action bar on Android 4.0+ and a custom implementation on pre-4.0 through a single API and theme.1625 forks / 3791 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- Face detection for cats in JavaScript - demo for a TXJS talk76 forks / 850 watchers / Pushed May 15, 13
- This repo contains example code for O'Reilly's "Programming Android" by Zigured Mednieks, Laird Dornin, Blake Meike and Masumi Nakamura38 forks / 112 watchers / Pushed May 14, 13
- This repo contains example code for O'Reilly's "Programming Android" by Zigured Mednieks, Laird Dornin, Blake Meike and Masumi Nakamura28 forks / 81 watchers / Pushed May 14, 13
- Yeoman generator for a basic front-end project workflow23 watchers / Pushed May 13, 13
- Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript591 forks / 4535 watchers / Pushed May 01, 13
- The project aims at being a modular backbone environment with as little authority on development as possible such that developers can innovate and contribute in an attempt to mimic the success of backbone.js ambiguous nature.89 forks / 513 watchers / Pushed May 01, 13
- Reveal side ViewControllers similar to Facebook/Path's menu290 forks / 1687 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 13
- GLOW is a WebGL wrapper, which focuses on easy creation and use of shaders.21 forks / 131 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 13
- Utility functions for JavaScript and Node.js used and maintained by Benjamin Lupton4 forks / 14 watchers / Pushed Apr 24, 13
- A Python Library to interface with Flickr REST API, OAuth & JSON Responses5 forks / 15 watchers / Pushed Apr 13, 13
- Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) descriptor extractor3 forks / 55 watchers / Pushed Mar 14, 13
- Coding conventions for Objective-C projects71 forks / 479 watchers / Pushed Feb 22, 13
- PKRevealController (ex. ZUUIRevealController) is a delightful view controller container for iOS, enabling you to present multiple controllers on top of one another.208 forks / 1081 watchers / Pushed Feb 04, 13
- An experiment in optimized loading of mobile-first responsive CSS.13 forks / 172 watchers / Pushed Oct 24, 12
- This is a forward geocoding API for iPhone/iPad33 forks / 122 watchers / Pushed Sep 09, 12
- Projects I created for my talk at the Eyeo Festival.23 forks / 152 watchers / Pushed Jun 14, 12
- Example of using require.js with backbone.js10 forks / 31 watchers / Pushed Dec 29, 11
- Simple 2-legged OAuth authentication model for django tastypie.4 forks / 21 watchers / Pushed Nov 06, 11
