Joshua Kendall

 

About Me

I am a 23-year-old web developer living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In 2007 I graduated with an Associates degree in Digital Arts from Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts. I've been programming in some form or another since 2000; for the last six years I've been primarily writing PHP with XHTML, Javascript, and CSS.

In January 2010 I started freelancing full-time after working for a small web firm in Pennsylvania for almost 3 years. I've worked on projects of all sizes for clients of all sizes; from small sites for companies just taking a chance on the web to large applications for clients.

Since I started freelancing full-time I've learned more about server and database management, I've learned how to setup and secure a web server as well as setup MySQL with Master/Slave replication. I've also had a chance to start learning new languages/technologies that I didn't have time to while at my previous job like Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Objective-C, CouchDB, and CassandraDB.

This Site

Sure this site could run on a publishing platform like WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, TextPattern or MovableType, but it doesn't because with the exception of ExpressionEngine I don't like any of them. This site is written in HTML5 with a Dynamic CSS file and runs on a custom CodeIgniter application.

The site was built on a Mac running OS X 10.6.4 using TextMate, Photoshop, Terminal, and Safari; it's hosted on a 512MB cloud server from the Rackspace Cloud.

I've tested this site in Safari 4.0.5/5.0, Google Chrome, and Firefox on Mac OS X 10.6.4; other browsers and operating systems probably do a decent job of rendering this site, but I haven't and probably won't test them.