About Me
I'm Nicholas Firth-McCoy. I work as a programmer and system administrator for 2 suggestions, an IT business 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.
This is my personal website - you can find out a little about me, what I'm good at and what I'm working on. These are my hobby projects; check out 2 suggestions for information about my day job.
If you're interested in what I'm doing or you want to work together, 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