about me

I'm Dan Wentworth, currently a final year computing student at Bournemouth University. I've recently completed a placement year at Tripleplay Services where I worked in the Tools & Tech department building development tools and the automated server build system.

In my free time I go Geocaching and camping. My music of choice tends to be of the Ska/Punk persuasion, though I'm prone to bouts of electro and post-rock. My favorite band in the whole wide world is Sonic Boom Six.

I also love attending and participating in barcamps, the most recent of which that I attended was Barcamp Brighton 4. I'm currently involved in the planning for Barcamp Bournemouth 2, pencilled in to take place during Easter 2010. I am currently joint head of the Bournemouth University UNIX society, BUNIX, as well as an active member of Dorset LUG. I've recently started working with the Open Rights Group as a volunteer sysadmin.

about my work

The main focus of my work is in Systems Engineering, I'm skilled in administering Linux, BSD and Cisco IOS based machines. I hope to soon attain CCNA 3&4 in order to become Cisco Certified, and in the future gain RHCE status.

In addition to sysadmin-ing I write standards-compliant web applications in both PHP and Python/Django, I also have experience in Ruby on Rails. I just like Django a little bit more. I also have significant experience in blending sysadmin and web programming skills to create web administration interfaces. As well as good general scripting knowlege.

I'm currently teaching myself C from books and sources found on the internet in order to gain a greater understanding of why things work the way they do.

For a full listing of my skills and work experience please download my CV.

about the site

The site is written in Python/Django and hosted on my VPS provided by memset. The web server itself runs a combination of Debain 5.0, Apache 2, mod_wsgi and PostgreSQL.

All of the code and design etc. is developed by myself, the theme is an iteration of a slightly uglier wordpress theme I developed. Source code is available on request (see contact page).