About Brett

In a previous life I worked as a biotechnologist, but uncertainty over the future value of genetic engineering, together with the limited career options for scientists in this country lead me to pursue a career as an Internet developer. I created my first website in the Summer of 1995. From September 1997 to October 1999 I worked for the University of Essex, where I worked as a Computer Officer with responsibility for looking after the centrally managed web servers and web caches.

Between November 1999 and July 2001 I worked as an applications developer with a small web development company based in South West London, UK called ~~digitalPeople~~ ~~intapps~~ peoplecube. Mainly working with Microsoft products such as Active Server Pages, Visual Basic and SQL Server, I developed solutions for organisations such as Manpower Sweden, Belron (Autoglass/Carglass), GKN and The Stationery Office.

Following the dot com crash of 2001, I ended up being between full time jobs for a while so I started my own company, Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited. Oddly enough I actually bought the winnershtriangle.com domain name for a joke, but ended up building a profitable business out of it. The business sells a range of innovative web-related products and software developer utilities, which so far have included the ASP Documentation Tool, ASP.NET Documentation Tool, the Indexing Service Companion, SQL Documentation Tool, Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool and The Website Utility (see full range of code documentors).

I have also done a considerable amount of writing about web technology over the years. I have also presented a talk on Browser Management at the Institutional Web Management: The Next Steps Workshop held at Goldsmiths College, London in September 1999 [a summary of the workshop is available]. I also contributed a couple of recipes to the Sams Publishing book ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook.

In my spare time I like to travel, cook and look after my tropical fish.

Man, have I been busy...

The Indexing Service Companion allows the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.
My software documentation portal: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/
ASPWatch.com articles. A few ASP/ASP.NET technical articles I've written.
ASP Documentation Tool. This creates project documentation for ASP 2.0 and 3.0 sites written in VBScript or JScript.
.NET Documentation Tool. This creates project documentation for .NET Framework source code (VB.NET or C#).
Visual Basic 6.0 Documentation Tool. Documents Visual Basic 6.0 applications.
Metadata Editor for Microsoft FrontPage. Download a free add on for FrontPage that allows the easy editing of Meta Tags.
JavaScript banner ad rotator. A popular JavaScript I wrote that allows on banner ad to be hyperlinked to more than one URL.
A JavaScript search engine allows anyone to add a search facility to their website without the need for server-side programming knowledge.
Java banner ad rotator. My first Java Applet. Page includes a link to the source code.
Improve ASP Data Caching with the help of the article Improving ASP Performance With Data Caching.
ASP disk space monitoring scripts. See a demonstration of this ASP script that was originally published on ASPWatch.com.
The SQL Server Help section contains articles relating to Transact SQL programming.
The SQL Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases.
Background images. A few high quality, tileable images for use as web page backgrounds.
ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook. Contains over 250 VB.NET examples (C# versions available from the book's website).
Winnersh Triangle Web Solutions Limited. Quality web development at affordable prices.
Other web development projects I've been involved with.