For the past 4 years I have worked with the core tools of HTML, CSS and Javascript but more recently have acquired AngularJS as well. Please see my skills section. What started as building web sites gradually also became building web applications for the browser with Angular. I am keen to start exploring other frameworks such as Angular 2, Vue and React as well and would welcome projects using these technologies.

I simply love what I do and love the satisfaction I derive from building out designs and delivering solutions.

Web technologies have really become my passion and my goal is to become a full stack developer in the near future. I am inclined to think that I will have a MEAN toolkit within the next year or less although I have always also wanted to learn PHP in depth and play with frameworks such as Symfony and Zend as well.
Besides my passion for web development I also love photography and playing chess when time alows. Other interests include languages and literature and I speak five languages to varying degrees, two fluent.

Working in development and in web development specifically I have learned the following tools, many of which have become industry standard:

For development itself there is jQuery, a hugely popular Javascript library. Angular, the most popular framework not so long ago and still first choice for many. Jasmine framework for testing coupled with Karma as test runner. Gulp and Grunt as Javascript task runners and finally Sass and Less as CSS preprocessors. I am familiar at using Node Package Manager as well as Bower. I have worked with quite a few CMS systems and have ample exeprience in building either templates or components that need to integrate into a particular CMS systems. You can find an example of a Wordpress site for which I built a custom template at Thurrock Chess Club. In terms of repositories there are many to use of course, feel free to visit my Github or Bitbucket accounts for some examples. I am also familiar with using Apache Subversion (SVN).

For project management and task management I have used many systems over the years. Jira is a favourite out of the many but I have used custom or bespoke software as well as solutions such as Pivotal tracker, etc. Finally there is debugging and my go-to option for that is Chrome Dev Tools, although I would be just as ease in Firefox Dev Tools or Firebug, if asked to use those instead.

As part of the process of learning new tools and techniques I often create sanbox projects such as the ones that can be found on the links below. This helps me to get a greater understanding of the underlying principles and a real sense of how something might work. Most of the time I build these on my local machine and they never get placed online as they are for me only and for the same reason I would not place them on a repository.

Below you will however find some examples of ones I have happened to place online, please feel free to visit them but realise they are just prototypes without any designs etc.

Bibliomate was an exercise in using Angular with ES6 syntax and therefore makes use of TypeScript. Classic Cars is a small SPA where I played with building custom directives such as product panels with navigational tabs as well as a customised review component that can add to the products directive. Finally there is a small ToDo application that has two views, left and right. The left view is for adding a ToDo item. The right view should then display the data representation of what is on the left.

I have experimented a lot this way and continue to do so. Keep an eye on my repositories, links below, where I will posisbly push more such examples to.