About Digital Media Minute
Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! This is a place for me to write stuff about things I am really passionate about. In no particular order, they are web development, open source, and cool bits of technology that just might make our lives more enjoyable. You’ll also find me posting some of my photos which is one of my other passions. Hopefully you will find some good stuff here that will inspire you as much as it inspires me!
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Jim is a Software Consultant for Cynergy Systems where he focuses on Flex development and creating a better user exprience using Rich Internet Applications. He also specializes in the areas of authoring technologies (HTML, XHTML, CSS & XML), client-side scripting (JavaScript), server-side scripting (JSP, PHP & Ruby on Rails), server management (Apache, MySQL, IIS & Tomcat) and interactive, rich-media applications like Adobe Flex, Apollo and Flash.
For the past 2 years, Jim worked for a small consultancy building content management systems for Federal and Provincial governements and developed rich internet application to help people manage water use. Prior to this, he worked for 5 years in the Digital Media Technologies (DMT) program at Malaspina University-College (MUC) where he taught web application develoment, web design, graphic design for internet publication, and digital audio and video production. Prior to that he worked for 3 years at the MUC’s Educational Technology Center assisting students and staff with multimedia and computer technology; as well he was responsible for evaluating and deploying new software on campus. He is a graduate of the Computer Systems Program at BCIT and spent 9 years as an award winning television producer/director before coming to Malaspina.
Jim enjoys the constant change that is inherent in the web development industry along with the continuing learning process and challenges that it brings. Keeping one foot in private industry, Jim operates a computer consulting company that designs shareware, web sites/applications, and custom applications for clients around the world.
Email : jim.rutherford@gmail.com
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Wordpress it the guts of this weblog. It is a free and open source PHP/MySQL based blogging tool that I highly recommend. The design is powered by a theme I created called Somerside. If you would like to use this theme, drop me an email and I’ll send you a copy. I also use a number of Wordpress plugins. If you’re interested, here they are:
