Code Matters
Freelance Software Developer & General Geek, located in Belgium
Skills & Interests
Java
- Core Competence
- Java is my main weapon of choice.
- Experience
- More than half a decade of experience, mostly on largish e-government web-applications and search solutions.
- Frameworks & Supportive Technologies
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- Solr
- Gradle
- Maven
- Spring
- Hibernate
- JUnit
- JSF2
- Ant
- JaxWS et al
Privacy & Security
- Secure Communications
- I can help you set up a secure communications infrastructure, using open source tools like GPG, OTR, Tor and others.
- Secure Storage
- Need help setting up your own cloud storage? No problem.
Development Infrastructure
- Infra?
- Many developers are (still!) not taking full advantage of automated testing, version control or deployment. Maybe they're too busy to set it all up, or maybe they're a little apprehensive about it. Whatever the case, I can help you get started.
- Tools
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- Jenkins CI
- Sonar
- Maven
- Webistrano
- Graylog2
Back-End Development
- My cup of tea
- Front-end development is not my cup of tea. The back-end is where I feel the most comfortable, and where I can deliver real value in terms of performance, security, maintainability and so much more.
Linux/Unix
- Sysadmin?
- Systems administration is not my core business, but having a good linux/unix working knowledge makes everyone's life that much easier.
- Distros & BSDs
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- Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS
- Debian
- OpenBSD
- FreeBSD
- Administration
- Installation & configuration of Apache, Zimbra, MySQL, PF and much more.
PHP
- Experience
- I've been writing PHP since 1998, from single line scripts to 300k lines applications used by 100k users a day.
- Frameworks & Supportive Technologies
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- Symfony 2
- PHPUnit
- PHPMessDetector
- WordPress
- Quality & Security
- Contrary to popular belief, it is actually possible to write decent, well-tested, secure code in PHP.
- Performance
- Identification & tuning of performance bottlenecks.
MySQL & PostgreSQL
- Design
- Database design and implementation for your project.
- Performance
- Identification, elimination or tuning of slow queries.