people
Name: Neil Dabson
Role: Coding and deployment. Technical architecture, research and software engineering, mainly using the Python programming language and the Zope3 application server; administration of web servers
Organisation: New Media
Biography
Neil's degree in geophysics led to initially a career in the oil industry. After too many trips to out of the way places, he left in favour of resurrecting a deep interest in technology. For the last ten years he's been involved in a wide variety of IT projects, focussing on open source software development and deployment.
Key Skills
- Software specification
- Application programming in Python Linux system administration
- Database design and administration
- Internet presentation layer coding in Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Server-side scripting in Shell and Perl
Interests
Gaming, vile liquers from around the world, cross-country pantomime.