Neill Pearman
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ABOUT ME
Web development professional (currently Ruby, JS, SQL)
Web development professional (currently Ruby, JS, SQL)
My experience over the last 12 or so years built from my uni experience and a lot was self-taught, first through getting experience with a lot of backend work using Java 1.4 (!), then using the Microsoft .NET framework for several years.
All the while I was moonlighting with what I enjoyed doing the most, Ruby on Rails. This has been my full time focus for the past three years. Through out the years, I've lead teams and mentored people to improve their understanding of all aspects of professional software development. Seeing more junior members develop has always been one of my favourite parts of the job.
CodeMentor gives me the chance to do this with 100% focus, outside of the need to achieve business goals at the same time.
French, English
Paris (+01:00)
Joined December 2015
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
I've been playing on and off with Ruby since 2008, initially in my spare time. For the past three years, I've run a tech team that build...
I've been playing on and off with Ruby since 2008, initially in my spare time. For the past three years, I've run a tech team that builds a Ruby and RoR-based web app, including back end services and supporting rake tasks. I also published a gem for dynamically interpreting XML messages (it's called Peachy, but I've sadly let the project slide over the last few years)
10 years experience
I've been using SQL in various forms for my entire professional career as persistence for the various pieces of software that I've worked...
I've been using SQL in various forms for my entire professional career as persistence for the various pieces of software that I've worked on. It's not glamorous and not as kewl as NoSQL has been recently, but crunching data in a SQL RDBMS is one of my guilty pleasures in the world of software development.
5 years experience
My experience with RoR is more or less the same as with Ruby in general, and have been using it since v2.3. The last three years has sup...
My experience with RoR is more or less the same as with Ruby in general, and have been using it since v2.3. The last three years has super charged my experience with Rails and all of it's moving parts whilst leading a tech team on building a web app that runs on Rails.
8 years experience
Source control is one of the most important things to master in software development in my opinion. Git and the distributed source contr...
Source control is one of the most important things to master in software development in my opinion. Git and the distributed source control approach was a revelation after using Perforce, Subversion, and Visual SourceSafe (!) Git has given me the power to sucessfully organise team tasks and project deployments using the power of branching, pull requests and rebasing.
5 years experience
Javascript used to be something that I dreaded, but one day along my journey through web dev, I saw the light about the power and beauty ...
Javascript used to be something that I dreaded, but one day along my journey through web dev, I saw the light about the power and beauty of Javascript. I don't consider myself as well versed as some, but enjoy solving problems in JS, and messing around with the prototyping paradigm to do so.
5 years experience
jQuery has been the basis for most front end work that I've been responsible for in the last few years, be that AJAX integration with bac...
jQuery has been the basis for most front end work that I've been responsible for in the last few years, be that AJAX integration with back end services, or dynamic UI changes and updates. It's an establishment for front end dev.
1 year experience
I'm fairly new to Ember, but I've embraced the way that the framework is structured. It's similarity to RoR makes it a great front end c...
I'm fairly new to Ember, but I've embraced the way that the framework is structured. It's similarity to RoR makes it a great front end companion to a RoR project.
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