Python geek - Kirupa old timer

JoshuaJonah · 08-20-2009, 08:22 PM

Used to be a pretty active contributor, then work happened. Looking for odd jobs.

I'm an experienced social network developer looking for some after hours work. I can put in about 4 hours a day.

I prefer working with Python + accompanying frameworks and can drop back to C++/Obj-C for heavy stuff. As for DBs, I'm comfortable with MySQL, MsSQL, DB2, Postgres, and Oracle. I also have a ton of experience with javascript and frameworks.

As for programming patterns, I have experience with sessions, account systems, e-commerce, automatic video encoding, image manipulation, feed aggregation, threaded comment systems, plugin development, compression algorithms, barcode recognition, contact management systems, etc. If I've not done it, I'm looking forward to it.

On the system administration front, I'm experienced with Linux, BSD, Solaris, OSX Server, and Windows server administration. I can setup domain access controllers, load balancing, failover, grid systems, high speed data storage systems, scaling, multimedia encoding boxes, email servers, etc. Same as programming, I love learning new things.

If your looking for serious help on something completely implausible, I'm willing to give it a crack. Or if you have the next new idea in the social web, I can pull it off for you and make it easy to run.

Please no Java, Flash, or PHP. *shiver*

TheCanadian · 08-21-2009, 02:54 AM

No Flash?! What happened to you?

**senocular** · 08-21-2009, 11:02 AM

At least people don't associate Kirupa with Flash work

JoshuaJonah · 08-21-2009, 12:40 PM

Actionscript 3 happened. I was already losing interest in AS2, kind of exhausted everything. Then Actionscript 3 came out and promised to be better and faster. We all found out that meant at the expense of taking twice as long to write properly.

Also at the same time, I joined the core dev team at Mootools and began to learn to do things with javascript faster and more compatible than Flash. I'd hate to be that guy, but I went the smug route, I now close browser windows when I see Flash loading.

I'm glad I stopped Actionscript because it afforded me more time to work with versatile languages like Python, Ruby, C, etc. Now I use the same languages for my web work as i use for programming desktop applications on all platforms. Not to mention, when somethings gets really complicated, these languages are MUCH faster at crunching.

I believe my flash days are over. Last time I had to crack a gallery open, I had to look at the AS docs to lookup syntax again. Too many hacks.