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About Francis
The person
Buddhist, father, born in 1959, former musician, writer, poet, mostly coder and Agile nut for a living.
Been coding since 1983, first paid gig in 1985. Long history Pascal / COBOL / Fortran / C / Shell / Oracle PL/SQL / Awk / Java / Ruby (for money, fun list is even longer and includes stuff like Lisp and Forth)
The blog full of long articles and stories
(Yes, I know, these need ATOM or whatever feeds so you can click on interesting looking articles. I have the same number of hands you do)
Rubyist since 2006 – TDD nut since about 2008.
Live projects
Fragmenteria Still writing the iPhone client for it.
Contact
Founder of Pharmarketeer
Open Source Projects
- has_lookup_extension: Lookup values for Ruby on Rails.
- Validate bank:Somewhat out of
date RoR plugin to validate UK banks using Postcode Anywhere’s service. - Keyword Density:Rails plugin that
will count words of more than two characters in a string. Uses a stop list (can be
user-supplied). Will look for phrases. Counts and searches for both stemmed and unstemmed
words. Being used to generate meta keyword tags at the moment. - Seecodez A place to describe and keep code reviews.
All these projects need some love and lack tests. Probably going to follow @coreyhaines advice, write some tests and then throw away the code to reimplement. Oh yes.
