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Me

My name is Dominic James Pettifer. I am a 30 year old Web Developer living in Motherwell, Scotland (near Glasgow). I develop primarily on the Microsoft stack, with ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, and Windows Server/IIS, with a tiny bit of Silverlight thrown in.

I put this website together as a showcase of my work, to blog about anything I'm interested in, and as a way to learn ASP.NET MVC. Web development and design is my passion, and I pay particularly close attention to issues surrounding using good accessible, sematic XHTML/CSS Standards compliant markup, SEO issues, and front-end web optimisation tricks.

Right now I am teaching myself agile programming techniques such as Test Driven Development, Dependency Injection and SOLID principles.

Education

I have studied Computing (Applications Development) at the University of Abertay Dundee from September 2000 to June 2005. Yes that's 5 years! It was a 4 year degree but I failed 3rd year and had to repeat it, but I managed to pick myself up and get a 1st class honours in the end. I also have a Postgrad Diploma at the same university in Software Engineering (Internet Computing).

Work

I am currently employed as a Web Developer for Conscia Enterprise Systems, based in Glasgow, where I have been since Jan 2007. At work I mainly build systems for the NHS using Umbraco, an open-source Content Management System, but also write bespoke ASP.NET web applications as well.

Interests

As well as being interested in web development/design, I am also a keen video game fanatic. I mainly play games on the PC but also own an Xbox 360.