Area 51 » tivnet

Skills, Experience and “Bragging”

• Develop Software professionally since 1984, using a variety of platforms and technologies.
• Web Developer since 1997, mostly with Open Source (Perl/PHP/Apache/MySQL).
• Able to work alone, or as a Team Leader.
• Hate “Code Horror”. Cannot sleep well until the code is polished to perfection.

WordPress - specific

• Use (.com) since its early days.
• Utilized WordPress as a backend for various projects – for about 5 years.
• Active plugin/theme developer - for the last two years.
• Moderator of two and active member of four WordPress communities on Google+.
• Made several patches to the WP Core (see props “tivnet”) and to a variety of plugins, including WP SEO by Yoast, WooCommerce and ReduxFramework.
• Have a strong feeling that there are no tasks that I cannot solve in the WordPress environment.

My Development Environment

• MS Windows (with Cygwin) for development; Linux/FreeBSD servers for staging and production.
• PHPStorm, adjusted to match WordPress Coding Style, with automatic LESS/CSS and JS minimizer.
• Xdebug, Debug Bar, Kint Debugger, Query Monitor and Core Control.
• Git (Bitbucket, GutHub), SVN (own server).
• Never use any of the WAMP/MAMP bundles. Always install everything myself: PHP, - MySQL, Apache, etc.
• Use dedicated servers, or VPS (Linode, DO) for production. Do System Administration myself.
• Never use FTP. To copy files, which are not in repository, use rsync only.
• PHPUnit and Codeception for testing.
• BrowserStack for testing in various browsers.
• Twitter Bootstrap, Font Awesome, jQuery.
• Bash scripts for some simple automation (mysqldump, rsync for backup, etc.)