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About Dave Crane
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Dave Crane has been working with the internet since the early 1990's, in industries as diverse as telecoms, home automation, digital TV, finance and sustainable development. He has experience of Perl, Java, Jini, JEE, Python
and Ruby and, of course, Javascript, and has written extensively about Ajax and pattern languages for the client-side.
He is currently Senior Developer/Architect at Historic Futures Ltd., using the internet to track organic, fair trade and cruelty-free products across global supply chains. Dave also regularly teaches training courses at Skills Matter in the UK, Europe and USA, and speaks at Skills Matter eXchanges and international Ajax conferences on Ajax, scripting languages and web technologies.
Dave also still keeps his hand in on the sustainability front, having recently helped to design an Eco-friendly city in China.
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FAVORITES
| Blogs |
Classical Geek
Dave Crane's Blog |
| Websites |
Dangermouse.net
For something a bit more unusual, I love the esoteric progranmming languages
at Dangermouse's site. |
The Primordial Soup Kitchen
And my a long-standing interest in simulation and gent-based modelling makes me love The Primordial Soup Kitchen.
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Craig Reynolds Flocking Simulations aka
I also have a long-standing interest in simulation and gent-based modelling and love to read Craig Reynolds Flocking Simulations aka "Boids" |
Cometdaily.com
Comet Daily provides information about Comet techniques. Their contributors are leading software engineers who build Comet servers, clients, and web applications. Comet is complex, so our goal is to demystify and simplify Comet for developers, managers, e |
TheServerside.com
TheServerSide.com is an online community for enterprise Java architects and developers, providing daily news, tech talk interviews with key industry figures, design patterns, discussion forums, satire, tutorials, and more. TheServerSide.com was launched i |
Artima.com
Artima Developer - best practices in Enterprise Software Development |
InfoQ
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community |
Ajaxian.com
A fantastic site for Ajaxians, on anything Ajax |
| Books |
Riddley Walker
My all-time favourite book is Rusell Hoban's "Riddley Walker", told in an invented pidgin English and incorporating themes of societal breakdown, Gnostic Christianity and Punch and Judy shows in a strange and unique fashion. |
BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year
I like photography - the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year compilations never fail to be inspiring and beautiful to look at. |
Wolf Brother
I get a lot of my fiction reading from my kids these days - recently, I've enjoyed
Michelle Paver's series of "Wolf Brother" books a great deal. |
Dave's own Prototype & Scriptaculous book
I find myself
using my own Prototype & Scriptaculous book quite a lot - the code for those libraries
is so dense and feature-packed that I can't hope to remember it all all of the time! |
Groovy in Action
Favourite computing/techie books? Well, on a day-to-day basis, I find myself
using "Groovy in Action".... |
Java Persistence & Hibernate
Favourite computing/techie books? Well, on a day-to-day basis, I find myself
Java Persistence & Hibernate as a reference. |
The Pragmatic Programmer
The original Pragmatic Programmers book is a gem - much of it may appear almost obvious now, but only because of the persistence of the two
Daves in pushing it into our programming culture. |
| Resources |
MIT's Simile project
From my days as a simulation modeller, I've always been interested in visualising large and complex datasets. There's been a lot of work in the Ajax space on nthis recently. MIT's Simile project has been developing some very powerful and easy-to-use tools |
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