About
Gday All,
My name is Michael De Wildt and I am 26 year old easy going Australian! I have decided to get into blogging to show off some of my personal work, try to stimulate discussion on various topics and develop my skills as much as I can. What better way to clarify your ideas then to write about them?
I am currently a Web Developer/Analyst Programmer in Melbourne, Australia where I am specialising in the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) and Comet/Jetty server side technologies. On the client side I use to other web 2.0 technologies including Javascript, JQuery, advanced CSS and XHTML. Formally I was an ASP.NET developer for a different company where my languages of choice are C#. In addition, I am writing a personal web application in Python using the Django framework.
As you can tell I am not tied down to one framework, operating system or programming language. With the advent of the internet and Google anyone can “cut code” however I pride myself on my knowlege how to write well designed object oriented applications regardless of the programming language, because in the end they are just a tool used to build a product.
Apart from work I enjoy an active lifestyle where I spend a lot of my free time travelling, keeping fit and participating in various sports. During the summer I love to go camping, hit the beach and go wakeboarding. In the winter I can’t get enough of the mountains , snow and snowboarding. I read somewhere that every good professional needs a third place so I suppose these sports are it. Nothing better to clear your mind then to strap on a board in fresh snow!
Anyways that is pretty much it!
If you want to drop me a line you can get in contact with me here.
Regards,
Michael De Wildt
