Hi, I’m Ben Nolan and I do ruby on rails, c++ and jquery development. I’m also partial to graphic design. I wrote behaviour.js back in the day and have been doing Ruby on Rails development since 2004.

Hire me

If you’d like to hire me, try email or skype. I’m always happy to receive requests for articles if there’s something you’d like to see written up on this site.

email

ben@nolanconsul.com

skype

bennolan

Some of my clients

A selection of my long-term clients.

Gibson Group International 2010

Working on a large rails project for Copenhagen museum, taking html/css mockups and combining it with a multi-gigabyte database into a high quality content site for Copenhagenites.

Meridian Limited 2009

Development of internal tools, using rails backend and flex actionscript 3 frontend.

Koziarski Limited 2008

Rapid development of google maps functionality for european locations, using prototype.js and the google maps directions api. Included clustering and optimizations for mysql gis indexes.

Sony Los Angeles 2008

We were taken on to update and complete an internal time management system. Working with people from the LA and Tokyo offices we streamlined the system to reduce time that management spent creating reports, and make it easier for designers to track their project commitments.

Youdo 2008

We spent two months refactoring their Beetil issue tracking system and tutoring their lead developer in modern rails and prototype idioms. This project uses ajax updates extensively and has gone on to commercial success.

Spatial Data Exchange 2008

A small project working with SDX developers on prototype.js and openlayers development of an online mapping package. Worked from the SDX offices in the heartland of Australias sunshine coast.

TravelIQ Gmbh 2007

Working out of TravelIQ’s Berlin office to modernise and complete their extensive (30,000+ lines) javascript libraries and completely javascript-driven user interface.

Autoscout24 2007

Worked with autoscout24 for 6 months on their internal customer relationship management system, which contains over 100 models and several gigabytes of data. Work included postgresql optimisation, generating reporting tools and speeding up page load time.

Where in the world?

I work from Level 1, 9 Holland Street, Wellington, New Zealand, fire me an email if you’re in town and want to drop by.