Peter Lyons

node.js coder for hire.

I'm a freelance web developer
specializing in custom application development.

The Stack

I'm currently focused on a bleeding-edge stack built around Node.js and using CoffeeScript, Express, MongoDB, jQuery, Jade, and Stylus.

Practices

• Pragmatic craftsmanship
• Agile/Lean methodology
• Testing and automation

<> Chops

Check my street cred...

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• Linkzie is a bookmark manager I built soup to nuts
  • Single Page App
  • Drag and drop intuitive UI built with jQuery, Ajax, JSON, REST
  • Back end in Ruby on Rails
  • Extensive front end test suite in Jasmine
• Full stack generalist. OSes, databases (relational or document oriented), app servers, web servers, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, UX, security
• Expert Linux/Unix systems administration with 6.5 years doing server automation development at Hewlett-Packard/Opsware

Favorite blog posts and StackOverflow answers

• How to Install Ubuntu 10.04 over a LAN
• On Idempotence, intention, and unix commands
• Environment variables considered harmful
• Dictionaries vs. Classes in python
• Python confusion with Unicode and the scary question mark character
• How jQuery does $() and $.ajax()
• Python script to validate HTML with the W3C validator
• cURL vs. wget vs. urllib2
• DOM vs. SAX for XML processing