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About Brett

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Career

In a previous life I worked as a biotechnologist, but like many other people I found myself drawn to the emerging thing called the Internet. I built my first website in 1995, and since then I've been working as a web developer since 1997. I've worked in many places over the years (current total is 6 full-time jobs, 3 contracts and 1 small business started). I'm mainly a Microsoft guru, and have focussed on Active Server Pages (ASP), .NET (VB.NET and C#) and the SQL Server relational database. I've also dabbled with open source technologies such as PHP and MySQL. I have helped develop Internet and Intranet applications  for organisations such as Manpower Sweden, Belron (Autoglass/Carglass), GKN, The Stationery Office, the Charity Commission, the Environment Agency, King's College London and the University of Essex.

I have also done a considerable amount of writing about web technology over the years. I have had articles published by the ASPAlliance, ASPWatch and ASPToday. There are also a number of articles on this website, covering topics including SQL Server, ASP and .NET Framework development. I also contributed content to the Sams Publishing book the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook.

Business

During aftermath of the dot com crash of 2001 developers weren't much in demand so I spent my considerable spare time writing a few developer productivity applications, which I sell through my small limited company, Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited. I've built these applications:

• ASP Documentation Tool. This creates technical documentation for web applications written in Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP). Both VBScript and JScript are supported.
• .NET Documentation Tool. This creates technical documentation for .NET Framework web and Windows applications. It supports both VB.NET and C#.
• The SQL Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases.
• Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool. This utility documents Visual Basic 6.0 applications.
• PHP Documentation Tool. This utility documents PHP web applications.
• The Indexing Service Companion allows the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.
• JavaScript banner ad rotator. A popular JavaScript I wrote that allows on banner ad to be hyperlinked to more than one URL.

I've also built a software documentation portal to list resources of value to anyone wanting to document software and processes: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/.

Travel and Photography

I've travelled extensively throughout the UK and the rest of the World:

Other Stuff

• My tropical fish.