My name is Ben Aldred, currently living in Manchester, England. I work for the BBC making web apps and attempting a little innovation here and there. This is my little corner of the web. I hope you like it!
Elevator Pitch
I am a Ruby developer (mainly Rails) who is passionate about agile artistry and pragmatic practices. I use RSpec for BDD, Git for source control and Textmate for editing code.
I am a pretty handy front-end developer and like to create simple, easy to use interfaces built with standards-based markup, CSS and occasional sprinklings of Microformats. I also harbour secret desires to be a part-time web designer.
Twistori Inspired List
- I love reading, cooking and travelling.
- I hate people that talk really loudly on the Bus.
- I think you should never take life to seriously and keep a good work/life balance.
- I believe that honesty is the best policy.
- When I have less than 7 hours sleep a night I feel shit.
- I wish I had more wishes!
Brief History
- Left school and turned down the chance to go to Art college.
- Worked in “character building” jobs and travelled the world a bit.
- Studied Computer Science at University.
- Moved to Manchester with my girlfriend Gill.
- Cut my teeth as a web developer doing ASP/ASP.NET
- April 2007, Discovered Ruby on Rails and never looked back.
- Work for the BBC as a developer, doing RoR and smoozing with TV types.
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