About Me
I'm Nicholas Firth-McCoy. I work as a freelance programmer and system administrator based in Melbourne, Australia.
I excel at building web applications in the Ruby-on-Rails framework, and deploying and managing Linux and Unix based servers.
I am currently taking on new clients and am available for hire. Take a look at what I'm good at and what I'm working on, and if you like what you see, get in touch.
What I Value
Some of the things that I value and strive for are:
- Beautiful, clean, terse code and markup
- The "Don't Repeat Yourself" philosophy
- Simple, lightweight, modular software
- Agile development
- Web standards and adherence to them
- Unobtrusive javascript
- Free, open source software
- The sharing of knowledge that the Internet facilitates