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his name up there, he is 28 years old. He enjoys art, traveling, designing and developing computer systems.
Projects he worked on
ibusiness.de
Tools: boil, js, mysql, html, css, vim, svn
Over the course of 10 months the team rewrote a large portion of the web application at ibusiness.de so it would resemble a modern MVC app more closely .
Together they redid the Database-Abstraction-Layer, reimplemented all the affected controllers and wrote a new template parser. Being done with that they designed an applied a whole new way of organising
files inside the project.
The biggest challenge:
Managing the quirkiness of the interpreter and the resources at hand in addition to not getting lost in detail.
mleis.com
Tools: ruby, rails, jquery, vim, git
As a freelancer he built a web based image archive software for a client. Using several state of the art tools
to fulfil the functional specifications which where presented to him. Among those specifications where some features
worth emphasizing. For example a cascading category based navigation, a lightbox based cart, a live translation tool and a drag and drop image uploader. Moreover
there is a full blown admin interface to manage all aspects of the application.
The biggest challenge:
Keeping a tight feedback loop with the client
Skills
- Programming
- Python - the general purpose language
- Django - Core Contributions, sometime to much “batteries included"
- Ruby - nice looking language with good meta-programming capabilities
- Rails - realised serveral project and wrote two plugins
- javascript - got to love the flexibility, the future will be interesting
- jQuery - preferred framework for classic web user experience
- Ansible - go to tool for IT-Orchestration
- Tools
- vim - oh that steep learning curve
- git - rebase is everything, everything is rebase
- bash - bread and butter
- aws - infrastructure has never been this easy
- Concepts
- TDD - always be testing your code
- BDD - good way of simulation user interaction
- OOP - i particular like rubys way of "everything is an object"
- SQL - easiest way of compiling data
- CD - delivering is a feature it's self
- Design Patterns - another way of keeping things dry
- KISS - if you don't understand what you've built, no one will
- bottom up approach - first, build a reliable foundation