The job advert

22 Jul 2004

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Apparently, I've been doing this (ephemeral link, I'm afraid) for the past year and a bit. You could be doing this stuff! (In response to the people who asked me whether there was an advert.)

2 old-style comments

  1. Simon Brunning — July 22, 2004 at 05:51 PM.

    "PHP, or a similar language such as Perl or C"!?

  2. Neil Blakey-Milner — July 22, 2004 at 07:29 PM.

    They all look the same - semi-colons and braces. ;) My boss figures so long as you have the high-level skills, you'll be able to pick up the language-specific stuff easily enough. I'd like to think that I managed well enough. He had a killer programmer/analyst test during my interview too - I imagine it got rid of the wannabes. At least he didn't mention Python. Python programmers have it _so_ good compared to PHP programmers. Of course, I'm about to head up a PHP project, so I'd better be nice about it.
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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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