About…
Specialisation in open source development including search, data mining, database optimisation / administration and programming.
Projects…
Speeple comprises of a blogging / profile platform, news search and group services.
Speeple Blogs
Speeple Blogs features an extensible templating system (using XML/XSL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS), tagging, blog post search and threaded comments. To get a grasp of these features, please browse my own personal blog “Speeple Core”.
The standard files for the design of my blog (Speeple Blog default):
Speeple News
Some information regarding Speeple News:
- Indexed 80,000,000+ news items
- Hundreds of thousands of new news items indexed daily
- Boolean and phrase matching supported
- Supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean searches: イングランド; improved keyword highlighting function highlights CJK and other language scripts (e.g. Latin, Hindi, Greek, Hebrew) independently: 任天堂Wii
- Supports search commands common amongst the top search engines: site: (supports multiple values: site:microsoft.com|google.com and ability to ignore sites: -site:bbc.co.uk), intitle: and intext:
- Adds new search commands for more control over search results: infeedtitle:, lang: (implemented similar to site: e.g. multiple values and ability to ignore languages) and pub: which provides results within a date range
- Supports grouping of either an entire domain or a specific feed via groupby:
- Search for news that has been tagged, for example: ricky gervais tagged:comedy
- Example search using multiple commands
Education…
Littlemoor Primary School
Counthill School (Comprehensive)
- Mathematics
- Information Studies (I.T.)
- Science (Double Award; Biology, Chemistry & Physics)
- English Literature
- English Language
- Spanish
- Art
Oldham Sixth Form College
- Mathematics (Pure & Statistics)
- Biology
- Physics
- Computing
Expertise…
Design
- Semantic and standards compliant HTML code
- JavaScript/AJAX and CSS
- Adobe PhotoShop image manipulation and image optimization
- Website Accessibility
- User interface design
Development
- Logical and modular system design
- Object Orientated Programming in PHP, Java and C#
- PHP code optimization
- Moderate expertise in XML
- Skills in Java, Apache HTTP setup, Linux server administration
- Solid skills in MySQL optimization: schema design & data type selection, query analysis, index utilization, MySQL server compilation and variable settings
- Some C/C++ programming experience
Tele UK domestic: 07590467439
Tele International: +447590467439
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Email: martin@martinpaulgallagher.com
