Welcome

Welcome to my blog about the happenings at Steampunk Webwerks and specifically what I'm up to on our projects and technologies. As you may or may not be aware, we are dedicated to making the web a better place one website at a time. We are accomplishing that goal using a dynamite CMS tool called Drupal which allows us to deliver more value to our clients than a traditionally designed website. We put the content control where it belongs, in the hands of our clients.

I've been developing software for 19 years and have a wide range of experience. I've worked on a variety of hardware including Apple II, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Apple Lisa, IBM System/36, IBM AS/400, IBM-RT, and IBM RS/6000 plus many more. I have experience with nearly all flavours of Unix (HP-UX, AIX, MIPS, Sequent Dynix, AT&T, NCR, DG-UX) as well as VAX and IBM mainframes, Linux (RedHat, gentoo, Ubuntu), OS/2, Windows 3.1/95/2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista and limited use of Mac OS/X. I have programmed in a plethora of languages as well including BASIC, JCL, RPGII, Pascal, C/C++, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, Informix-4GL, SGML, XML, HTML, CSS, XSLT, shell script, Flash, and others. I have developed applications against a variety of databases as well. The list of databases includes Informix, Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL Server, Cloudscape and MS Access.

Throughout my career in software development I have worked on a wide range of applications including Point Of Sale, Order Entry, Inventory Control, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, CASE Tools, Document Management and Authoring, Manufacturing Execution and Shop Floor Control/Data Collection as well as traditional and web 2.0 user interfaces.

As you can see I've had the good fortune to be exposed to and work with a ton of technologies across a wide range of industries. And of course this list is not exhaustive. I'm sure I could go on boring you for hours with all the cool stuff I've gotten to work on.

Hopefully I've provided a little insight into who I am, at least on the "professional" side, and you feel just a bit like you've actually met me. Oh yeah, I'm also a speed freak who loves riding fast motorcycles like the Yamaha YZF-R1. And I play the greatest sport on the earth, hockey.

Thanks for stopping by!

=Perry