Hi, I’m Pierre

I’m an interactive developer.
I work at KAN Malmo. I’ve been developing for the web since around the time when Mike Tyson took a bite of Evander Holyfields ear.

( surprisingly that happened back in 1998 (!) )

Background

I used to love developing creative solutions and RIA’s with the Flash platform, including touch applications for desktop and mobile. These days, however, I’m on the no-flash route more or less. I do keep an eye on AIR Mobile, since it’s a still a great tool to create powerful mobile app expericences.

What do I do?

Having developed rather advanced Javascript-heavy applications for the last couple of years I’m 100% convinced that Javascript is a very powerful language. Doh, these days we even run it on the server with the power of Node.js.

I love developing SPAs, ( Single Page Applications ) where you really deliver a snappy experience for the users, pushing modern browsers with creative content with canvas. Creative | Fast | Content Driven

I’m a fan of Backbone.js. I don’t mind the boilerplate, since it really gives me the power to extend it in whatever direction I may find most useful for the specific project.

Toolset

SublimeText 2

Skills / Helpers

This is what I tend to use on a daily basis or have a great knowledge of and push myself to master.

SublimeText 2

An amazing text editor. Gamechanger.
Javascript

Dynamic, weakly typed language. Extremly powerful. If you know javascript it won’t turn into pasta or whatever J
Backbone.js

Gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API
Require.js

JavaScript file and module loader. A great tool.
Grunt.js

A task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects
Coffeescript

A little language that compiles into JavaScript. I like to play around with Coffeescript since really do speed up certain things with JS development.
Node.js

Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8. This is key for my development these days powering build tools and compilation. Powerful and fast it have it’s place as a server.
Mongo DB

Used with Mongoose it’s a scalable, high- performance, open source NoSQL database.
jQuery

Simplifies how to traverse HTML documents and handle events. Given the browser situation, and depencencies of other libraries, it’s a must-have for a lot of projects.
Modular Code

I love modules. What I don’t like is a single file of 3486 rows of code. I’d rather have 83 files with 42 lines of code. Keep things separated and de-coupled.
Angular.js

Its goal is to augment browser-based applications with Model–View–Controller (MVC) capability. Two-way-binding, which suites certain kind of projects.
SASS

Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3.
PHP

It’s been the serverside language I’ve been using since back in the days. AMFPHP was my choice of gateway for bytearray transfers working with flash. WordPress based sites, as this one.
Actionscript 3

Dialect of ECMAScript for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtime environments. AIR Mobile for mobile games and custom apps. Great tool for prototyping apps as well.
Robotlegs

A pure AS3 micro-architecture (framework) with a light footprint and limited scope. My absolute favorite AS3 MVC framework.

A bit about me

I’m a creative curious soul, having dedicated my pre 25’s to music, touring with my band. When it comes to work, I always strive to push myself, constantly dig deeper, learn new ways to handle obsticles I may come across. I’m a problem solver.