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I create loads of Open Source Grails stuff under the banner Grailsrocks including a bunch of popular Grails plugins such as the Resources framework, Feeds, Bean-Fields and Cache-Headers. I get excited about using Grails to hide development complexity.

I am paid to spend some of my time developing the Open Source Weceem CMS Grails application & plugin, in addition to various consulting on application usability, user experience, as well as Grails/Groovy development and mentoring for companies and startups. Contact me if your team could do with some help.

I am a member of the Grails Plugin Co-operative and a core Grails development team member.

Recently I launched a startup called NoticeLocal, of which I am a founder and the architect.

Out of that sprang a new concept for weaving data into HTML so that it is used for presentation and for JavaScript model, and we called it Horn and open sourced it.

It doesn’t happen often but I have been a speaker at conferences including Grails Exchange 2007 and 2010 (video) and JAX London 2010 (video) and Grails and Groovy Exchange 2011 on keeping Grails one step ahead and on Weceem.

I also dabble in iOS development for iPad and iPhone.

Some of my favourite ideas/work achievements include; The Grails Resources plugin which is now part of the default Grails 2.0 offering. The Java stacktrace sanitizer in Grails (now also in Groovy) and improved trace output, delivering more user-friendly exception traces to developers.

Availability

I work from home usually for a mix of several clients and I’m often available to some degree. I take on clients from a few hours per month to full time depending on my commitments.

Please write to me at marc@anyware.co.uk and/or follow me on twitter @wangjammer5 or github

_{Please note: I'm not interested in working on defence projects, for companies that perform testing on animals, gambling related products, or projects that are directly based on environmental damage / fossil fuel extraction or any other stuff that I consider to be a bit nasty. Ethics are complicated - if in doubt, please ask!}

Skills

I’ve been using and contributing to Grails since version 0.4. I have many years experience of Java, Groovy, JavaScript and some Objective-C.

I started out programming around 1983 with Basic. I then moved to 68000 assembly language, Pascal, C, C++ and Java, JavaScript and Groovy. I can do PHP and some AppleScript, but I don’t like to talk about it.

While I can code all these, please note that I don’t take paid work currently for anything except Groovy/Java.

I’ve a good eye for usability and a creative outlook.

I’m Apple all the way.

Work history

Skills in detail

Some people want to know all this. You probably do not.

Programming languages: OOD/OOP - 17 years; Java over 10 years; Groovy over 4 years; Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP. Ancient stuff: Borland Delphi 4 years, Borland C/C++ & OWL 3 years, Borland C++ Builder 1 year; Borland/Turbo Pascal 4-7 & TurboVision library 3 years; Motorola 68000 Assembly Language 3 years;

Technologies: Grails 0.4 to 1.3.x; Grails Plugins; jQuery & jQuery UI; RESTful services; Basecamp API; Lucene; Java from 1.1.8 to 1.6; JUnit; Spring; Cocoa & iOS; J2ME CLDC/MIDP/MMAPI; J2ME CDC + Foundation; JAXP & XML parsers; Extensive hand-coded HTML & XHTML Authoring - 10 years; Advanced XML authoring (DTDs, parsed external entities etc.); DocBook XML/XSL Authoring; Apache FOP - 1 year; Apache Tomcat - 7 years; Resin; WebMacro template engine; IBM WebSphere/J9 VM with J2ME CDC/Foundation on Linux StrongARM platform; Java Cryptography Extensions, BouncyCastle, Rijndael, 3DES & RSA ciphers.; Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI); Java 3D; JavaComm serial communications API; GSM Modems & GSM AT+ command set, SMS Message protocol; OSGi 1 and 2; IBM SMF, Prosyst, Gatespace and SUN JES OSGi implementations; JavaCard 2 applets for Maxim/Dalsemi iButton devices;

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