About

My name is Alex Taylor and I am just waiting to graduate with a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Science Degree (BCMS). I am a Senior Developer at Enlighten Designs and living in Hamilton, New Zealand.

I like photography and music.

In addition, I occasionally try and fix bugs in Webkit, the engine behind Apple’s Safari Web Browser. I don’t get much time but I like to fix bugs that annoy me if they’re within my skill set.

I worked at Evos, a webdesign company in Hamilton, New Zealand for over two and a half years. Working there drove me to be very passionate about web design. As I have a Computer Science background, I can code in many languages and find learning new programming and scripting languages quite easy.

A new opportunity sprung up and I am now working for Enlighten Designs Ltd jumping straight into a programming language I have only a brief knowledge of, using a new framework (ASP.NET) and experiencing a new office culture. I’m excited by the challenge and hope I perform as well as I expect. There is an awesome group of people around so it should make the experience fun.

I have experience coding in PHP4, PHP5, Javascript as well as Java, C++, C# and Visual Basic. In the past I’ve hacked around in some Objective C, Perl, Ruby, ASP, Bash Scripting and ActionScript. At the moment, I spend most of my time working in PHP5, Javascript and an in-house XML based language that controls our web framework. I have extensive knowledge of JSON, AJAX, XML and use these daily in my current position.

My blog includes post about things happening in my life as well as music that I enjoy listening to and movies that I think are worthy of watching. I also write articles about new technologies and about companies both on the internet and offline. When I encounter a web design problems I need to find solutions for or have overcome, I try to post about it on my website as a resource for others that may hit into the same problem themselves.