About Alistair Buckle

I’m Alistair Buckle, an experienced LAMP Web Developer and System Administrator.

Professionally, I enjoy administering Web and database servers as much as developing websites and applications. My study of computer science and understanding of each aspect of their integration allows me to fix, to optimize, and to develop scalable solutions.

Personally, I enjoy spending an inordinate amount of time with computers. I like to keep up with the latest trends in technology. I’m an avid follower of current affairs and politics. I watch good and bad films and treasure my collection of MST3K.

Technical and Specialised Skills

I develop websites with Eclipse (PDT), using Subversion for version control, and Photoshop or Illustrator when I’m doing the creative, but I usually work with graphics artists.

I spend most of my time when I’m doing system administration in *nix at a shell, prefer KDE, and currently use CentOS as a desktop.

  • Programming Languages

    • ActionScript
    • bash
    • CSS
    • (X)HTML
    • Java
    • JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery)
    • PHP
    • XML
    • SQL

  • Platforms

    • Unix (FreeBSD 4/5/6, Solaris 10, *nix)
    • Linux (CentOS; Red Hat Enterprize Linux 4/5; Ubuntu)
    • Windows (95/98/XP/Vista)

  • Software

    • Apache
    • Dreamweaver
    • Flash
    • Illustrator
    • MySQL
    • MS Office Suite (Access, Excel, Word)
    • Photoshop
    • WordPress
    • XCache

  • Development tools

    • Eclipse (PDT)
    • Firebug
    • Firefox
    • Meld, diff
    • phpdoc
    • Quanta Plus
    • Subversion

  • System Administration

    • bash (including writing shell scripts)
    • cron
    • GNUplot
    • the three tops: (top, apachetop, mytop)
    • SSH
    • RPMs
    • up2date
    • vi, vim
    • yum

  • Website Development

    • Google Analytics
    • Google Webmaster Tools
    • SEO
    • Sitemaps
    • Usability

Curriculum Vitae

My resume is available on request.