thewarpedcoder

I’m Trevor Ward aka @theWarpedCoder, and for my day job I’m a freelance software Developer, currently working on web and mobile based applications, using the Appcelerator Titanium framework.

For those who are interested I started coding professionally in the early 1990′s using COBOL (yes COBOL)…. in the mid 90′s I had the opportunity to upgrade my skill set and I went into the new and emerging web environment. This was using Perl, HTML and JavaScript with a healthy SQL and oracle component.

I honed these skills by being sub contracted into Jaguar cars working on their in-house web based business applications. This was an awesome time and I even contributed to CPAN with a few modules the most used being PDFREP.

I then moved on and had some great fun developing for other companies, until due to requirements I moved into RoR and Adobe Flex. this culminated in an opportunity to work on another Jaguar project. (not at jaguar). This was to prototype using Flex, the in car information system which was actually released in 2010.

I believe that if you limit yourself to the technology you know then you limit the project to the technology limitations. Always look at the project and make sure that you are using the right tools.

Early 2011 I picked up a contract to develop a mobile application for Gencia Media in Manchester. This has turned out to be a really interesting project and took me in another direction as the best fit technology for the project was Appcelerator titanium. So a quick change of platform back to Mac and an intense study period brought me up to speed and enabled the first release of the flipscape application in November 2011, with the initial campaign usage being to facilitate Argos in their Xmas promo.

Well that’s about up to date and so far it has been an awesome 20+ yrs coding with hopefully many more to come.

Comments or questions are welcome.