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Me
My name's Ryan Bigg and I work on the web.
I begun my web "career" by making sites on freewebs. I learned PHP whilst still at school and on my own time, and a couple of years ago started WSI (Whatpulse Signature Images) with somebody who I met on the WhatPulse Forums after the original service went down, currently it has 11,500+ users. Adam put a lot of time and energy into the site and now it basically maintains itself.
Whilst still coding PHP I did job tracking systems for Ridgehaven Joinery and JustComputing. All of this whilst working for Coles as a shelf stacker / Checkout Whore / Fresh Produce Minion.
A couple of years ago whilst still doing PHP work a friend of mine Ralxz introduced me to Ruby on Rails. Ever since then it's been a love affair (between me and Rails), fueled by a thirst for knowledge. Sometime between then and now, I helped Ralxz with a site called Studyfeed which is a way for students/teachers to share notes on a particular subject. I was responsible for converting the layout from a PSD template into an actual layout, and I helped Ralxz code some parts of the site.
In June of 2007 I begun doing work for SeaLink, the state's biggest (and best!) ferry company. This all begun when I went to the Adelaide Ruby Users Group meeting and I told them I was currently working at Coles, I was offered 3 jobs: SeaLink, NetFox and Freerange Future. I chose SeaLink. It was a great 8 months working for them in a team of 5 people to create a new ferry booking system for them and their clients. Shortly before I left, we deployed to Sea Stradbroke, a Queensland company who runs the ferries from the mainland to both Stradbroke islands.
Between SeaLink and my current job I did a bit of freelancing. In this time I managed to re-implement JustComputing's job tracking system in Ruby on Rails, and worked on SA Window Cleaning's job tracking system too (sensing a pattern?). Unfortunately SA Window Cleaning never got back to me and no longer seems interested, so I guess that's life. During that time Daniel Draper from NetFox was interested again in hiring me and ultimately I took up the job on May 12th. NetFox is an "internet content management and billing solution for schools and businesses", in short it stops your workers/students going places where they shouldn't. My first task was a re-implementation of netfox.com which had to be completed before CeBiT, and was. Currently I'm working on projects for South Australian Career Consultants and SmallPrint (no, they are not job tracking systems!). It's exciting times because we recently got a new client, pinksofa.com which currently has over 100,000 members and is written in ASP.net.
I have a blog at www.frozenplague.net where I post sometimes interesting snippets about Ruby/Rails code, or things not entirely related to Rails.
I recently accquired a new domain of twonklist.com which is an anti-social networking application where you nominate people who you think are idiots.
Me
My name's Ryan Bigg and I work on the web.
I begun my web "career" by making sites on freewebs. I learned PHP whilst still at school and on my own time, and a couple of years ago started WSI (Whatpulse Signature Images) with somebody who I met on the WhatPulse Forums after the original service went down, currently it has 11,500+ users. Adam put a lot of time and energy into the site and now it basically maintains itself.
Whilst still coding PHP I did job tracking systems for Ridgehaven Joinery and JustComputing. All of this whilst working for Coles as a shelf stacker / Checkout Whore / Fresh Produce Minion.
A couple of years ago whilst still doing PHP work a friend of mine Ralxz introduced me to Ruby on Rails. Ever since then it's been a love affair (between me and Rails), fueled by a thirst for knowledge. Sometime between then and now, I helped Ralxz with a site called Studyfeed which is a way for students/teachers to share notes on a particular subject. I was responsible for converting the layout from a PSD template into an actual layout, and I helped Ralxz code some parts of the site.
In June of 2007 I begun doing work for SeaLink, the state's biggest (and best!) ferry company. This all begun when I went to the Adelaide Ruby Users Group meeting and I told them I was currently working at Coles, I was offered 3 jobs: SeaLink, NetFox and Freerange Future. I chose SeaLink. It was a great 8 months working for them in a team of 5 people to create a new ferry booking system for them and their clients. Shortly before I left, we deployed to Sea Stradbroke, a Queensland company who runs the ferries from the mainland to both Stradbroke islands.
Between SeaLink and my current job I did a bit of freelancing. In this time I managed to re-implement JustComputing's job tracking system in Ruby on Rails, and worked on SA Window Cleaning's job tracking system too (sensing a pattern?). Unfortunately SA Window Cleaning never got back to me and no longer seems interested, so I guess that's life. During that time Daniel Draper from NetFox was interested again in hiring me and ultimately I took up the job on May 12th. NetFox is an "internet content management and billing solution for schools and businesses", in short it stops your workers/students going places where they shouldn't. My first task was a re-implementation of netfox.com which had to be completed before CeBiT, and was. Currently I'm working on projects for South Australian Career Consultants and SmallPrint (no, they are not job tracking systems!). It's exciting times because we recently got a new client, pinksofa.com which currently has over 100,000 members and is written in ASP.net.
I have a blog at www.frozenplague.net where I post sometimes interesting snippets about Ruby/Rails code, or things not entirely related to Rails.
I recently accquired a new domain of twonklist.com which is an anti-social networking application where you nominate people who you think are idiots.