About Me
April 6th, 2006
I’m a 30-something-year-old web software developer and designer from Edinburgh.
I’ve been married to Becky since summer 2002 and we have one child - a lovely little girl called Emily who was born on the 18th of July 2006. Lots of pictures on Flickr.
I have my own software company called Zorrino. We design and sell Mentor, an innovative and powerful web software application for the health and social care sector, helping clinical professionals to manage care planning, risk assessment, medications and a lot more.
I use Microsoft development tools to build Mentor - Visual Studio, .NET (1.1 at the moment), C#, XML, SQL Server (2000 at the moment) IIS, ASP.NET as well as HTML, JavaScript and a smattering of AJAX. I consider myself pretty competent in all of these. I’ve been working with Windows for a long time now and I’m moving over to OS X shortly. I’ll probably look into .NET 2.0 soon. When I didn’t work for myself, I’d be the first to try out all the new technologies. Now, I have bigger problems to solve.
I’m interested in moving my development over to open source technologies and I’m looking into Ruby on Rails and MySQL. I’m also pretty interested in extending my limited design skills with Photoshop and Illustrator.
I’m pretty active and like to keep myself busy and fit. I cycle and mountain bike, mountaineer and hillwalk and recently I’ve taken up running. Next year (2007) the plan is to take up triathlon (which’ll require me to learn to swim freestyle properly).
Every year, I try to have a few “projects” on the go. This year I’m running I’ve run the Loch Ness Marathon and I’ve walked the Wales 3000s with my friend Iain. Last year I spent a lot of time mountain biking and participated in a couple of MTB Marathons and spent 10 days mountain biking across the Alps in Switzerland. 2004 was all about the mountaineering and I spent a couple of weeks scaring myself silly climbing 4000 metre mountains in Switzerland.
Next year the plan is to complete L’Etape and Ironman. After that? I’ve still got over 200 Munros to climb and adventure racing looks like fun.
