Marc Palmer

Many of you will know that I’ve been working solidly on Grails sites for the last 2 years now, for high profile UK food/drink brands. Due to a gap in brand budgets, I am available for contract work from mid-August for what looks like a few months.

With these brand sites I have been heading the development team, responsible for the majority of architecture/design and implementation of the application code, including some ajax JS code (primarily using Prototype/Scriptaculous) – separate developers have been responsible for the HTML/CSS and graphic design, and some of the JS code. I also mentor developers and do my best to improve working practices on an ongoing basis.

In summary, my commercial work of note in recent years -

Grails 1.x sites:

• Copella 2008 (www.copellafruitjuices.co.uk)
  with blog, recipe database, forms capture, reporting, competition draws
• Copella Garden 2008 (www.copella-garden.co.uk)
  with blog, AJAX fruit/vegetable Garden Planner application (not live yet), user registration, email confirmation round trip, web flows
• Tropicana 2008 (www.tropicana.co.uk)
  with forms, integration with external site for property search etc using REST, dynamic image rescaling
• Cobra Beers 2008 (www.cobra-beer.com)
  with dynamic podcast generation, blog as CMS, postcode proximity search for outlets

Grails 0.5.x sites:

• Tropicana Win Every 24 Hours 2007 (competition site now closed)
  AJAX based competition site and multi-page survey capture
• Copella 2007
• Tropicana 2007
• PJ Smoothies 2007-2008 (www.pj-smoothies.co.uk)
• Tropicana Go 2007-2008 (www.tropicana-go.com)

Other:

• PJ Smoothies + Tropicana Go 2006 sites
  pre-Grails custom Java webapps with Spring, Groovy and WebMacro (and hand coded SQL eurgh!)
• Southampton University – UK parliamentary document archive search system improvements (Lucene/Agora, Java webapp)

Grails Plugins I have written:

• Feeds – RSS/Atom feed generation with custom DSL
• Authentication – simple pure-grails authentication
• Debug – out of the box logging of request params and all kinds of bits
• StaticResources
• PostCode – UK postcode centre lookups with embedded data
• EmailConfirmation (not publicly released yet)
• ImageCache (not publicly released yet)
• Blog (not publicly released yet)

I have also contributed periodically to Grails core, and if you haven’t already noticed I’m a Grails evangelist of the highest order! I am am also a total Jira maniac.

For more info on the diverse range of development work previous to this and info on how much Java and other language experience I have, please see my old CV

So if you have a project you’d like me to develop or consult on, drop me a line (marc@anyware.co.uk).

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