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.
You should check out my time tracker software, Paydirt.
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