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<h1><a href="/">The Attic</a></h1>
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<h3 id="sigline" class="hidden-xs"> by <a href="/about.html">Andrew Winder</a></h3>
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<h2>About the Author</h2>
<p>Hi, I'm Andrew Winder, and I write here about technologies that I encounter
in my day-to-day work, as well as comment on interesting news about the industry
in general. I also post links to articles & projects that I'm working with
or that I find interesting, and that I think others might find interesting too.
I might even use this site to talk about my own open-source projects one day,
if I can manage to actually drive any to completion!</p>
<p>A little bit about who I am: I'm a Node.js & AngularJS web developer currently
working at <a href="http://www.messagesystems.com/">Message Systems</a> in
Columbia, MD. I've been working full-time in the tech industry for the last
6 years, but I fell in love with the Web and started programming against it around
13 years ago. I started out my career primarily working with JavaScript & PHP,
while working with the Drupal Content Management System. I built a couple of
high-traffic sites using that platform, from the <a href="http://www.wfp.org/">World
Food Programme</a> to the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">2008 WhiteHouse.gov
redesign</a> along with a very talented team of developers. Later I worked for
<a href="http://www.npr.org">NPR.org</a>, again doing a lot of JavaScript development
alongside PHP. I worked on some <a href="http://www.npr.org/infiniteplayer/">fun projects
</a> while I was there, and I worked on a small sub-team to reimplement parts of
the backend & frontend code in the responsive redesign of <a href="http://www.npr.org">
NPR.org</a>. I also started working with Node.js on some smaller projects around
that time, and started getting into MVVC JavaScript frameworks like
<a href="http://knockoutjs.com/">Knockout.js</a> as well.</p>
<p>I'm now working with a lot of newer technologies in my work at Message Systems,
utilizing an all-javascript stack with Node.js on the backend and AngularJS on the
frontend. I'm writing automated tests (unit & functional), and using task
runner tools like <a href="http://gruntjs.com/">Grunt</a> to automate common tasks
and build steps. I'm working with a lot of non-RDBMS data stores like
<a href="http://www.vertica.com/">Vertica</a>, <a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/">
ElasticSearch</a>, and <a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/">Cassandra</a> lately,
as the software I'm writing moves more into the space of needing to scale outside
of smaller clusters or single machine instances.</p>
<p>If any of this sounds interesting, these are the kinds of topics I plan on writing
about on this site, so welcome to The Attic! Feel free to reach out to me on
GitHub, LinkedIn, or Twitter if you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback.</p>
<hr />
<p>This site uses the following open-source components, and could not exist without them:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://getbootstrap.com">Twitter Bootstrap</a>, a CSS framework that
makes it easy for even a lowly developer like me to turn out something that looks
halfway decent.</li>
<li><a href="http://jekyllrb.com">Jekyll</a>, a blogging-centric static site
generator. This series of HTML pages is organized much nicer behind the scenes,
check it out at <a href="https://github.com/awinder/awinder.github.io">github</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://octopress.org">Octopress</a>, for deploying this site and
other excellent convenience features when working with a Jekyll site.</a>
<li><a href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/">Font Awesome</a>, an icon font that I use to provide some small
graphics and the social networking icons.</li>
<li><a href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a>, for some of the Twitter Bootstrap
built-ins.</li>
<li><a href="http://prismjs.com">Prism.js</a>, for code highlighting blocks.</li>
<li><a href="http://dharmatype.com/dharma-type/bebas-neue.html">Bebas Neue Font</a>,
for the text in the title bar of the site.</li>
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<p>Hello, I'm Andrew Winder. I work at <a href="http://www.messagesystems.com">Message Systems</a> as a Senior Software Engineer, and I blog here about AngularJS, Node.js, and other technical topics. All opinions are my own.</p>
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