A Brief Biography
I'm an engineer, originally focusing on Automotive engineering, before eventually settling into the Broadcast industry. I originally 'fell into' the broadcast industry after finding summer employment at Quantel, while attending university. After which I changed majors, to focus more towards the computing science used within the broadcast incdustry; moving from a Motorsport Engineering & Design course, to study Computer Systems and Networks.
I first discovered OpenSource during my time at university, when I first developed an interest in web design and development. Over the years i've developed quite an evangalism for OpenSource, in particular the Linux kernel, the Ubuntu project, the Python software foundation and ffmpeg.
I started as hobbiest developer while at school, after a brief introduction to basic on windows platforms. As my interest in the linux platform grew, I became more intrested in cross platform support, and spent my time working with various web technologies, and for administrative purposes Bash. Whilst working at Quantel I was introduced to the Python programming language, and over the coming years found an affinity with it, and fell in love with its flexibility and simplicity.
CV
Here is where it all gets a bit serious, a fuller explaination of my skills, expertise and employment history can be found within the pages of my CV. Should you wish to contact me about it, please either use the mail link in the top left corner, or the details within the document below.
Resources
Swansea Met. referencing schema
A Zotero compatible referencing schema developed to comply with the Swansea Metropolitan Univeristy referencing policy. In an attempt to encourage further development, the csl files are now hosted on github
hydracoder
hydracoder is a suit of applications enabling the creation of scalable transcode farms, based on a number of opensource components. hydracoder provides a toolset for managing and controlling scalable farms, housing linux machines running ffmpeg, or FFmbc. hydracoder manages the distribution of jobs to transcode nodes, and provides a command line interface based on an api, and eventually a web management interface. Appologies, but this project has been put on the back burner due to work commitments, but should be back up and running in the coming months. hydracoder is hosted on github