I am Braden Walters, professionally a computer scientist and programmer. Professionally and in side projects I’ve had experience with different types of projects, which I explain here. More about my own projects can be read on the projects page. Other interests, such as photography or posts about non-software topics may also be found.
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Software Development
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Web Development
Back-End
ASP.NET / Microsoft MVC: I’ve use Microsoft MVC in traditional web applications and in single page applications. Extensions like SignalR make single page application development comfortable when two-way communication occurs regularly. Entity Framework is also one of my favourite object-relational mapping libraries becasue it leads to readable and maintainable type safe code. Due to cross-platform support and simplifications made by Microsoft, I prefer working with .NET Core over .NET Framework.
Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails has helped me in both commercial and private projects, which I previously used extensively. The extensive amount of libraries available to extend it and its ORM ActiveRecord make it easy to write very readable code. Despite Ruby’s lack of a type system, I’ve had positive experiences with the Rails framework. Unfortunately I have not had any use cases for it since Rails 4.
Django / Python: The Django web framework, along with South for migrations, were used in private projects I worked on previously. I have not worked on any Django projects for some time though. Microsoft MVC and Ruby on Rails have gotten the job done just as well.
PHP: Most experience I have with PHP is commercial and I tend not to use it privately. I’ve worked on projects using the Yii Framework, Zend Framework 2, and smaller projects not using any framework.
Front-End
React: React is my choice technology for developing single page applications for the web. Its efficiency and focus strictly on UI makes it an attractive tool. Paired with the flux pattern, I’ve found it easy to implement clean solutions that run stably.
Angular: While working with Angular commercially I’ve found it most suitable for large single page applications. Its large feature set and the vast amount of supporting libraries help get consistency right across an application. I have experienced that Angular can add a lot of development overhead, so if I use it, I must be convinced that the project can benefit from it. Otherwise React gets the job done.
jQuery: In web sites that have some advanced client-side functionality, but not single page applications, I sometimes use jQuery to express verbose JavaScript operations with less code. Due to developments in browser technology and the shift toward single page applications though, I now tend to use jQuery less frequency.
Miscellaneous Web-Dev
Hakyll: I have written websites, including this one, with the static site generator Hakyll. The frameworks simplifies building static websites and can convert various source resources to their publish format.
Game Development
Unity: If I’m making a game, it’s easiest for me to turn to Unity. It’s the engine with which I have the most experience, it makes prototyping easy, it supports almost every feature I need (and the rest is on their roadmap). I’ve worked with the asset pipeline, built UIs, have made both 2D and 3D scenes, synchronised multiplayer games using the (now deprecated) high level networking API, and have prototyped levels with ProBuilder. Currently I’ve only worked with Unity in a private context. Look at my projects page to see what I’ve done with it.
Godot: Because I prefer free and open source software, I naturally learned and used Godot. Currently I am more experienced with Unity but have used Godot for 2D game development. Look at my projects page for an example.
Desktop Graphical User Interface Development
Qt: When writing a graphical desktop application I prefer using Qt, either with Qt Widgets or QML. It’s cross-platform, leads to fairly clean C++ code, and supports most commonly used graphical control elements. I’ve used it in both private and commercial contexts. In additional to desktop applications I’ve also used it for applications deployed on mobile devices.
Mobile Development
Android: I’ve used the Android SDK for developing Thugaim, a game which can be found among my projects. My experience has been mostly limited to activities, the API for working with rendering to canvases, and input. My experience with Android does not extend beyond game development though.