My name is Richard, I am a web developer and I am currently working in the farming and food industry building web applications for farmers and supermarkets such as Tesco and Waitrose.

I grew up in Southport, in the North West of the UK and went to Birkdale High School. I completed an Engineering BTEC at college and in 2003 I went to university where I studied Cybernetics, Robotics & Virtual Systems.

I kind of fell into web development, as I was finding it hard to find a job in robotics that didn't need 10 yrs of XP or a Masters of the Universe. I don’t regret not going into the robotics industry as I have found web development, as a career, to be interesting and challenging. I do still dream of sending robots to Mars or the bottom of the ocean and I still programme robots in my spare time, generally using an Arduino.

I will be posting in depth discussions about arduino and web development but intend to post about more general experiences such as my recent decision to 'Go Palaeo'.

- Rich