I am a freelance (of sorts) Computer Analyst Programmer.
I also look after a number of Linux Web Servers for other people who would rather not get there hands dirty using the Shell.

The strongest area that I specialise in is Problem Resolution.

You can Contract me for some work.

I am almost always available for various tasks, including Sysadmin, Problem Resolution, and Programming. I mostly work in the Linux area, but for programming I also develope under Win32.
Send me an email, briefly describing what you require.
The majority of the contracted work I tend to do, is either Shell Scripting (bash), or Perl under Linux.
You can see *some* of the perl works around this site, though most of the perl I do is generally for clients, and therefor can not be listed for public view.

Some of the Languages I do (or did - some I no longer use)
My definition of Programming Languages =  in the broad sense - to include Data Basing and Scripting - both Compiled and Interpreted coding and in the past Assembled

Stuff that's Not really Programming, but more Hacking around:

• Sendmail
• DNS (Bind & messed with simple DNS - for windaz)
• Apache
• Awk'n'Grep'n'Sed type stuff (A LOT of)

(In no particular order - except as I remembered them)

• Perl (current) - Windows and Linux - both CGI (Common Gateway Interface) and the Real stuff
• Bash Scripting (current) - Linux
• Python (not a lot)
• HTML (well who cant)
• JavaScripting (only if I have to)
• Java (far too clumsy and slow - abandoned that plan)
• C (not if I can help it) - Windows
• Ada (not recently)
• Pascal (not recently) & Mod5 - Windows/Dos - I wrote a Pascal compiler once in C :)
• Basic (Yuk - never again!)
• COBOL (not recently - though I spent 5 years doing this day in day out for the Government)
• RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) on ICL 29/3900 Mainframes
• QM (Query Master - similar to SQL (Structured Query Language) instructions, but nicer)
• SCL (System Control Language) on the ICL (International Computers Limited - now Fujitsu) 29/3900 VME (Virtual Machine Environment) Mainframes
• Paradox & dBase databases
• MSDOS/DRDOS/PCDOS/CPM Guru (<= 6.22) & FAT(16) Hacker Extraordinaire (even if I did say so myself <g>)
• 80x86/68000 Assembler (not anymore thankfully) - awe I hated MASM
• probably a few more too.... humm

What I would like:

• An Apple MAC - I've never even touched one - My mother told me never to touch what I cant afford to break!

What I DON'T do:

• Any form of Windows API programming.
• If you need some web work done with Images and PHP, these are the guys I recommend, and is where I pass ALL the PHP requests I now get (I do NOT do PHP myself) - widescope.net, dont forget to tell them I passed you on, they love to hear I keep passing them commission free work :) (Im serious!)

I am a freelance Analyst/Programmer & also Linux support bloke as my day job.

Though I STRONGLY believe that you should "Find a job/career you Love, and you will never have to work a day in your life!" This is something I have done ever since my first job.

So on this token, if you want custom script writing or some commercial Linux help, then please feel free to contact me, I'm always available to give quotes. Although, if you ask for something written in an area that is not my field, I wont string you a line, I will tell you straight, "It's not my scene" :)

My first experience on day one with a computer was to write (well copy) a program ... and at the age of 11 I knew what my career path was to be... but HOW to do it was the hard part, especially as by the time I was ready to work for a company almost nobody wanted to employ programmers who had not been through the operator/other areas in computing first :( 436 job applications later I had 3 interviews for programming, an over 90 for operations/others. I declined the 90, and went for the 3 and was offered 3, of which 2 were to start the next day. I hung out for the 3rd one, which I preferred the look of, even though it was substantially less money (well it was working for the Government). And thus began my real job as an Analyst Programmer (ICL 2900/3900 mainframes), though tea boy and go'fa was a significant part of the job in the early days, as well as discovering that my college course was almost a total waste of time, because they teach you next to nothing about how computers are really used. And worse still they teach you these fancy ways of doing things that nobody in the real world uses as they are to much of a pain to debug 5 years later when they fail.