The two biggest sites I have helped architect and develop are contiki.com and channel5.com, each attracting tens of millions of hits per month. Prior to that, I was part of the two-man team that developed the tournament manager software used at every ATP and WTA tennis tournament around the world (except Wimbledon).
Jörg is one of the most competent software engineers I have worked with. He has a very sound knowledge of software architecture, particularly in the web-based applications. He is amongst the most experienced Ruby on Rails people in South Africa.
Grant Brewer
I believe in Ruby on Rails (RoR), HTML5, Agile web development, Joel on Software, test driven development (TDD), The Pragmatic Programmers, rspec, git, stackoverflow, javascript, coffeescript, Backbone, requirejs, nodejs, asyncjs, jasmine, and reading books. I'm developing a crush for asynchronous programming. Also, I am a Rails contributor, and have presented at Cape Town's Ruby Brigade.
Rails Workshops/Courses
So far I have given two intensive Rails training courses in Cape Town. They're probably more like workshops as we create an application from scratch using TDD. Each course had about four students.
Personal Projects
I created Blinkplan, an online tool for the magazine industry to create flatplans. Last year I launched Find Help - a directory to find therapists, psychologists and social workers. A long long time ago I created AK47.tv - an online art photography magazine, which had almost 4000 subscribers.
To experiment with different technologies, I assembled
- hat.jit.su, which runs off node.js, websockets and angularjs. Hatjitsu allows you to do realtime online SCRUM Planning Poker.
- I've experimented a little with UX on the command line - and created forecast-cli to beautifully display a weather forecast in your terminal.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss any of your own future projects.