Hi, I'm Toby Mackenzie, a beginning web developer in the Akron/Cleveland, Ohio area. I just finished attaining an Associates degree in eBusiness management at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C). I hope to get a web-related job as well as work on some freelance projects. For the freelancing, I will be working with designers Jason Rodgers and Nadia Ryzhkova. Since we are fairly new, we will all help each other enter this industry.
I am skilled at programming and working with databases, as well as handling a number of other web related duties. I have experience working with these web technologies and applications:
- ASP
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Photoshop/GIMP
- Apache
- *NIX administration
- BASH scripting
- JavaScript
- JQuery
You can read more about me on my about me page or LinkedIn profile. See some of the projects I've worked on at my portfolio page. Feel free to contact me, especially if you would like to hire me.
I also maintain a blog on Wordpress.com about various web development related things of interest. These are some of my recent posts:
02 Feb 2010 @12:20 PM
Yay! I’ve got another freelance project now, and this one I’ll actually get paid for. It won’t be much pay, I gave them a very low price, but it sounds like I will get paid more from this job in the future: They want me to be their go-to guy for updating
01 Feb 2010 @07:15 AM
I’ve completed another Lynda.com certificate, my first since starting my solo lynda account. This one was titled Building an Online Shopping Cart. I don’t really have experience with eCommerce yet. I worked with the forms and some of the database information at my RPM internship, but the actual processing was already built
01 Feb 2010 @05:43 AM
It wasn’t long with that last theme. It had some undesirable issues, such as the cut off code blocks, no page tabs, and a few general appearance things. I had looked at this Monochrome theme before and skipped over it because it lacked differentiation for “code” blocks. However, I’ve discovered that it
01 Feb 2010 @04:53 AM
A while back, I wrote about using the JSONesque literal value parameters in Javascript, like jQuery does. This allows arguments to be passed: with names, in no particular order, all being optional. I set it up so that multiple arguments could be used as well, allowing for existing functions to still work or
26 Jan 2010 @02:40 AM
I am using Awstats for my site statistics on both my home server and my dreamhost host. Dreamhost provides statistics with Analog automatically installed, but I prefer Awstats. Awstats is very good at accounting for robots and has a nicer interface. It is also more configurable since I have access to the full configuration files.
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