He built his first Web application as part of his Masters dissertation in 1996 and spent the next 11 years building large-scale Internet and intranet applications for numerous FTSE 100 corporations as a consultant/developer in London through the dotcom boom and bust. Having passed through Perl/CGI, Java, and classic ASP, he has adhered to the Microsoft ASP.NET stack for more than a decade and over the past two years rediscovered a passion for client-side JavaScript and also the promise of HTML5.