Who the hell are you?

My name is Duncan Robertson (na Ponting, na Pratt), I’m 37 years old and I live South of London with my wife Ellen. I have two sisters and a brother and hail from a small village in Dorset called Wool. You can learn more about me at flickr, lastfm, delicious, Facebook, Twitter and upcoming.

If you want to get in contact you can get me at: duncan[at]whomwah[dot]com

What do you do?

I currently work as a Software Engineer for BBC Radio and Music. Recent projects I’ve been involved in include (most recent first):

1. rQRCode. A Ruby library that encodes QR Codes. [Me]
2. Core team member in the development of /Programmes [BBC]
3. BBC Listen Live app for Facebook [Me]
4. Internal CMS and admins tools built using Ruby on Rails [BBC]
5. BBC Listen Live OSX widget (worked on with Tom) [BBC]

What did you do?

I’ve had a very varied career path to date. Here’s a bulleted list of highlights:

1. Apprenticeship with U.K.A.E.A
   • - I’m a fully skilled Mechanical Engineer
2. Watch Repairer
3. CNC programmer -
   • - Made parts for British Aerospace
   • - Made parts for F1 and Indy 500
   • - Made parts for Telecoms
4. R&D for X-Lite Mountain bikes -
   • - Developed various mountain bike parts
   • - Helped develop the first twin-yolk suspension system
   • - Helped develop a very early prototype full suspension bike
5. Freelance web developer
6. Client Side Developer for the BBC
   • - Young Musician of the Year 2005
   • - 6 Music
   • - Glastonbury 2005
7. Software Engineer for the BBC
   • - Internal admin tools built in RubyOnRails
   • - BBC Programmes

What’s this site all about

Well it’s really for me to remember stuff I was doing and thinking about at a point in time. It’s also been a great place for me to test ideas and new stuff I’ve been working on.

I’ve had the site since 1999 and it’s been through many incarnations since then. It’s been HTML then Flash then HTML then Flash. I’ve built custom CMS’s for it in Rails, PHP, ASP and Flash. It’s used Movable Type, Typo and is now running on Wordpress.

What are your interests?

Been snowboarding for 15 years and still get a massive kick from riding in the mountains. Starting to do more mountain biking again ( I used to work for a mountain bike company and you tend to overload on it which puts you off ). I’m currently do a lot of running which I’m really enjoying. Oh and XBox 360, mustn’t forget that (gammertag: whomwah).

Geek wise, I like web technologies, open source, hacking code, gaming, 3-d modelling.

What about the disclaimer

Oh yes, the opinions of the site are personal and do not reflect those of my employer.