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G’Day!

I’m a business web application developer. I build stuff, try to be helpful, and solve problems.

I like to solve small problems that make a big difference.

 

Specialising in:

• Developer leadership and management.
• Team support.
• Debugging and hunting down problematic CSS and JavaScript.
• Front-end web development.

A penchant for:

• Web Application Security.
• Software usability (UX).
• Process automation.

Skills:

• Excellent communication.
• Documentation.
• Even better with people than with code.
• Patient and pragmatic.

Core technologies I work with:

• C#, ASP.NET, .NET Framework (no Core experience yet).
• PHP, WordPress.
• SQL
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS
• SASS/LESS
• TypeScript
• Bootstrap
• jQuery
• Angular 5

I’ve traditionally been a full-stack web application developer.

I’m also experienced with:

• Knockout.js
• Vue.js
• A/B testing

 

Resume

Download the Word Document.

 

Personal Projects

jsUplink (https://uplink.jsnelders.com/): A small JavaScript script with a backing Azure Function to lookup and replace ugly <a> links within pages.
Build primarily to service a new section to this site and release free for the world to use.
(First published 7 July 2018 with more features and enhancements to come, including favicon display. I’m also dogfooding it at https://connect.jsnelders.com/).

WhatsMyTime: Initial R&D prototype developed at https://stackblitz.com/edit/whatsmytime. Further development and a dedicated site with examples to come.

Connect (https://connect.jsnelders.com/): This is a project 3 years and a handful of attempts in the making. Connect is my attempt to solve a personal problem: web bookmarks, information collection and notes in one space. Think of it as Chome bookmarks meet OneNote. In the past, I build a web app from the ground up using ASP.NET/Bootstrap/Auth0/Azure Storage/Azure websites. This time: WordPress, a bit of JavaScript and 1 Azure Function. It’s also the reason and testbed for my jsUplink project.
(7 July 2018: I’ve just managed to get the site up and some initial pages down. It’s ugly, it’s raw, it’s got a long way to go – please bear with me.)

 

Where to Find Me

I try to write useful and practical things here, on my blog.

 

A really big snail!?

Struth! This one’s well fed.