I am a big fan of functional programming, and have been moving away from object oriented programming.

PostreSQL's dialect is the most familiar to me since I support a 400GB+ production database, but I am experienced with SQL in general, having worked with SQL Server, MySQL, and HiveQL.

One of my favorite languages, learning it changed me forever. I now write very different code even when I'm not writing in Haskell itself!

I started using Hive and HiveQL in 2016 and it is one of the most enjoyable things I get to work with these days.

The Twelve-Factor App manifesto changed the way I build web services and applications, and I consider most if not all of it best practice.

My first experience with Ruby was over 10 years ago when I started reading the Pick Axe book. In January of 2005 I was introduced to Ruby on Rails by a friend. Back then Rails was still a 0.x release. Later on I began to learn Rails and with it my Ruby programming skills began to take hold.

Since then I have worked on a number of production Ruby on Rails web applications and written a few Ruby gems in the process as well.

I developed a client library for OAuth 1.0a (RFC 5849). One of the most difficult aspects of that implementation is its request signing, which leaves little to no room for mistakes.

From 2011 through 2012 I followed the OAuth 2.0 working group with high anticipation as it developed the specification. During that time I developed an REST API that was secured with OAuth 2.0 following the spec's 18th draft, the latest available at the time.

OAuth 2.0 is much easier to implement than its predecessor OAuth 1.0, although the first one is arguably a more secure authentication mechanism thanks to its request signing features.

I started web developing by teaching myself PHP (starting on version 3) and MySQL. From there I began building my first web applications. I developed my own private libraries and frameworks for handling everything from routing to form validation to database connections and querying.

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Phil H.

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