From Jimbojw.com

Contact

I can be reached by Email at: wilson.jim.r<at>gmail.com, or by leaving a note on my contact page.

Expertise

MediaWiki

I am an expert at MediaWiki, as evidenced by my:

• Commit access to the MediaWiki core (handle: jimbojw)
• Articles on MediaWiki development, including:
  • HowTo: Keep MediaWiki from Modifying Your Extension Output
  • Doing more with MediaWiki parser extensions
  • Raw HTML Output from a MediaWiki Parser Function
• Widely used MediaWiki extensions, such as:
  • WikiArticleFeeds, which generates RSS and Atom feeds from MediaWiki pages (in use on my blog)
  • EmbedVideo, which gives editors the ability to add videos to a wiki from such sites as YouTube, Revver, and Dailymotion
  • ArticleComments, which allows visitors to leave comments on a page using a friendly, non-technical input form
  • more...

I was a technical reviewer for the O'Reilly MediaWiki Book (estimated availability: October, 2008).

I am also an expert at PHP and MySQL, the technologies on which MediaWiki is built.

HBase

Although I am a relative newcomer to HBase, I have already made a name for myself with my articles:

• Understanding HBase and BigTable (syndicated on DZone), and
• Understanding HBase column-family performance options

I have also submitted several patches to the project which have been accepted, including:

• HBASE-608 which addresses DNS interface specification, and
• HBASE-569 which supplies a demo client implementation in PHP.

I am also an expert at Hadoop and Java, the foundation technologies for HBase.

JavaScript and Ajax

I have written a number of articles on JavaScript development, for example:

• What Would Google Suggest?,
• Executing covert JavaScript from Flash, and
• Using Prototype and Scriptaculous with Greasemonkey

I've also authored a miniseries of articles specifically about Ajax which includes:

• Introduction to Cross-Domain Ajax,
• Cross-domain Ajax via Flash, and
• The future of cross-domain Ajax

Other Technical Writing

For more samples of my technical writing, I recommend these articles:

• Data URIs and Inline Images (explains how to use the data: URI nomenclature)
• XMMS, Gnome and global hotkeys - setting up keybindings
• Executing covert JavaScript from Flash
• IBM Page Detailer and Tamper Data tutorial (the lost manuals)
• Position absolute is really relative? (how to interpret CSS position attributes)