Scott S. McCoy

I am the founder of the Freenode IRC channel, #awk. I'm also the author of a sophisticated IRC bot written on top of a multiprocess module system implemented in pure, portable AWK. I'm familiar with the distinct differences between most AWK implementations.

Many modern developers claim to write shell scripts, but they actually write scripts which only work in modern bash. I am not one of those developers — I build old school, portable, POSIX-Compatible shell scripts as controls for my services. But I can also help you trick out your zsh session.

With nearly 20 years of web development experience, I deal with HTML and CSS all the time — Hell, I was writing production web systems before CSS was actually supported widely by browsers. That said, if you require designer input about some of the more elaborate features of modern CSS, I might recommend an actual designer.

With nearly 20 years of web development experience, I deal with HTML and CSS all the time — Hell, I was writing production web systems before CSS was actually supported widely by browsers. That said, if you require designer input about some of the more elaborate features of modern CSS, I might recommend an actual designer.

I've been developing software since 1993, and make is one of the tools I've used all along. Having implemented a number of reference architectures and build and deployment processes which used make as a centerpiece, I understand make can be intimidating to newcomers, and have plenty of experience teaching people how it works.

Having nearly 20 years worth of web development experience, I was a fan of JavaScript before Douglas Crawford started writing about it, and I've supported applications which use JavaScript in the front-end all along (as well as written object oriented JavaScript). I've used JavaScript in tons of environments, and even have experience embedding SpiderMonkey among other things. Working in the advertising technology space for the last five years, I've had the opportunity to keep up with the changes in the JavaScript landscape. I've also had the opportunity of having to support a vast number of environments, having written frameworks which get embedded into millions of webpages across thousands of publishers stacks and supporting dozens of browser combinations as gracefully as possible, which gives me some unique experience with some of the finer details of browser support and library interoperability.

I'm the author of a handful of CPAN libraries and have written high volume production asynchronous systems in Perl.