I was lead developer for Nethouseprices, the UK’s leading site for free sold house prices from April 07 to December 10, and now I am the web developer responsible for Connells the Estate Agency and www.sequencehome.co.uk. Both of these sites enjoyed traffic in the region of 600-800,000 visits per month.
I’m currently working my notice for Connells and looking for new opportunities.
I have been a software developer for 17 years now and the last 9 of those have been spent doing web development.
I like to think I’m fairly language agnostic – in my time I’ve used (in date order) Pascal, 8086 assembly language, COBOL, Visual Basic, Perl, PHP and C#. As Bob Martin a.k.a Uncle Bob once said “a programmer that only knows one language is like a carpenter who only knows how to work pine”, its important to have worked with a variety so that you can appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of each.
I currently specialise in PHP, MySQL, Web Standards, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C# and ASP.Net.
Sites I have worked on include
- www.connells.co.uk
- www.sequencehome.co.uk
- www.nethouseprices.com
- www.nethouseauctions.com
- www.propertypod.co.uk
- www.jameshay.co.uk (upto mid 2007 – but it hasn’t changed much since then)
Feel free to contact me at richard@1234willis-owen.co.uk (remove the numbers – there to stop my address getting picked up by spammers).