[Sussex] Open source web-application development group [Was: Openshift, Openstack and Docker]

[Paul Feakins]

On 28 April 2014 19:41, Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for your interest.
>
> Quoting Paul Feakins <paulfeakins at gmail.com> on 28 April 2014 17:35:
>
>  On 28 April 2014 17:03, Fay Zee <sussex at eglug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> There's a wealth of choices in this area and I would welcome nuggets from
>>> a knowledgeable source. If there is enough interest, I might like to
>>> start
>>> up or join an existing user group based around open source
>>> web-application
>>> development here in Sussex, perhaps as a subset of Sussex LUG, meeting
>>> on a
>>> different night.
>>>
>>>
>> I'd be pretty keen to come along to this as I work at www.antropy.co.uk
>>
>
> Here is what I could bring to the table:
>
> My background in front and back end web application development consists
> of wholly Microsoft in a corporate environment from 1997 to 2011, so 15
> years in the Microsoft camp developing in Access from 1997, in ASP Classic
> from 2000 and in ASP.NET C# form 2004.
>
> However, my contribution to a developer group can encompass the whole
> life-cycle of development, from initial contact, to requirements capture,
> UML, end cases, prototyping (including "paper" prototyping), planning,
> developing, scalability, testing, user acceptance testing, bug fixing,
> training, report suite development and support. I have experience of users
> and their time restraints and the 80/20 rule, as well as soaking up some of
> the combined experience and skills of those around me.
>
> All these are platform independent, so carry over to the Open Source arena.
>
> I have been a lead developer for about ten years (with one assistant) and
> liaison with report writers and am also proficient in HTML, CSS,
> JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, Greasemonkey/Scriptish and of course SQL.
>
> But the only development in PHP and MySQL that I have completed so far is
> little apps for myself and a commission to write a mapping application for
> a delivery driver. I wrote mapping applications back in my early days, so
> this was relatively easy to plan. All I had to do was find the matching
> syntaxes and methods in PHP and MySQL.
>
> I would welcome the challenge to get involved in helping to run a user
> group.
>
> Who else would be interested or knows someone who would benefit?
>
> Please post!
>
> Best regards,
> Fay


I had no idea you had such extensive web development experience! We'll have
to discuss in more detail at the next meeting!
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