This Blog…
TheMadHiker’s Weblog is a blog, rant and general commentary site published by Keith Derham. What I put on it is entirely up to me and the only relation between posts will be the fact that I wrote them and will be of something which has recently caught my attention. I love music, popular culture, gadgets, food, drink, eating out, travel so they may (or may not) all appear on here at some point or other.
Me…
Keith is a 33 year old developer from London, UK who has been in the tech industry since 1997 where he started out working for a reseller of hardware and IT services. As he discovered the potential of the internet he learned HTML and started his first site called “Keith’s Amazing World of Nothing in Particular” hosted by Geocities. As time went on he began working in various database support and development roles (Informix, Oracle and various flavours of Access) until he got the opportunity to tie this together with his fledgling web authoring skills to build a series of interactive features on the Tracker (UK licensee of the Lojack technology) web site.
Keith decided to complement his budding career in technology by obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Computing from the University of Westminster in London and as his final year project undertook the task of engineering a content management system written in C# using the .Net Framework 1.0 backed by a SQL Server 2000 database.
Since then Keith has been specialising in systems integration to streamline and improve business processes by bringing disperate systems together (both internal and over the web) through remoting and web services.
In July 2008 he obtained the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (Enterprise Application Development in Visual Studio 2005) certification. Keith is now exploring the capabilities of version 3.5 of the .Net Framework and writing applications using the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation.
The Name…
What is the meaning behind “The Mad Hiker”?? Its simply an anagram of Keith Derham, go on, try it, I dare you!
