About me, and my passion for what I do
I am Jamie Huskisson, a twenty two year old PHP developer from Nottingham England. I’ve spent the last seven years of my life dedicated to learning as much as I can about the industry, PHP itself, and as many web apps and social networks as possible.
I’ve moved through several positions in my career starting out working on personal projects for little money to working remotely with internationally based companies in America and Canada. I then moved into a full-time freelance PHP development career working with several excellent clients and teams. This then advanced into me founding Rolled Limited, a socially positive and ethical web development and design company. This was acquired in May 2008 by a local company in Nottingham from which I left my position of Lead Developer in August of 2009. I have now returned to being a full-time freelance PHP developer and am nearing the completion of a book due to be released at the end of 2009.
I love working with the CodeIgniter framework for all my PHP development projects, though I am known to get dirty with some raw PHP to keep myself on my toes.
In terms of content management systems, I work heavily with Wordpress (which powers this blog) and ExpressionEngine since they make my life a little easier when it comes to some projects. I also love the community around both of these content management systems and the world of open source. Magento is also my favourite system when it comes to out-and-out e-commerce systems.
I am also particularly fond of working with clients to achieve their ideal websites for their companies, introducing them to new social tools and apps on the web to better their businesses, whilst making it easier for them to manage their site and get in touch with their users.
I love getting to know people. I’ll talk to just about anyone who is willing to talk about any of the above and anyone who is willing to teach me about something new that I can take forward to improve myself or the way I work.
I love my job and this is my blog where I write about my past and current experiences so that others can hopefully read with interest, possibly learning something new in the process.
