Freeside Software

Portfolio

A selection of my public commercial work

Sky Guide

An innovative online TV listings guide with Sky+ box integration. Built with *Grails* and *Backbone.js.*

Sky Entertainment

A single *Grails* application serving multiple sites with extensive editorial control over page layout.

Commutineer

A commuting-themed social networking site. Built in *Grails* with text-messaging integration.

Services

What can I do for you?

Well-tested, quality software is what I do. I drive my work with tests and care about simplicity and usability. I'll work with you to create something that will delight your users.

Web development

I'm interested in taking on projects from simple web pages for small businesses all the way up to sophisticated web application development.

I can come & work with your team, work remotely or fly solo depending on the project.

Consulting

I'm also available for consulting. If you need Grails expertise, help with test-driven development or support for any of the open-source software I work on then get in touch.

Rob Fletcher

I've worked in software development for almost 15 years and done all kinds of things from an XML parser on a mainframe to backbone.js one page apps. I don't believe in being pigeonholed as a ‘front-end’ or ‘back-end’ developer and I'm as happy polishing a CSS layout as I am debugging a slow-running ORM query.

I'm very involved in open-source software having contributed to the Grails framework and produced my own HTTP testing library Betamax.

I've worked with and for Energized Work numerous times over the last few years. If you're looking for a highly-productive, collaborative, no-nonsense team you should get in touch with them.

I have spoken at conferences in London, Copenhagen & Minneapolis as well as the London GGUG and open sessions at Energized Work. I blog (fairly) regularly at Ad-Hockery and Hipster Dev Stack.

Open Source

You can use my software right now!

It's a rare time that I don't have at least one open source project on the boil. Some of my more recent work includes:

Betamax

Betamax is an HTTP testing tool that records and plays back HTTP traffic generated by an application when running tests. This isolates tests from external dependencies & allows them to use ‘canned’ responses to simulate error conditions, etc.

Grails

In addition to a number of small contributions to the Grails framework I recently updated the default scaffolding templates and stylesheets for version 2 of Grails to use modern standards such as HTML5, CSS3, jQuery & WAI-ARIA

Grails Plugins

I have released a number of Grails plugins including; Fields, Springcache, Spring Events, Joda Time, Selenium RC & Session Temp Files.

Geb

I worked with Luke Daley on the Geb browser automation tool. I talked him into basing it on Selenium and built the Geb Navigator API that layers a jQuery-like syntax over the Selenium API.

Speaking

Grails for hipsters! gr8conf US, Minneapolis 22^nd & 23^rd July 2013
Groovier Testing with Spock Devoxx UK, London 26^th & 27^th March 2013
Grails for hipsters!
Groovier Testing with Spock Groovy & Grails Exchange, London 13^th & 14^th December 2012
Future-proof scaffolding with the Grails Fields plugin
Betamax gr8conf US, Minneapolis 31^st July 2012
Groovier Testing with Spock
Betamax gr8conf EU, Copenhagen 8^th June 2012
Testing HTTP dependencies with Betamax Groovy & Grails Exchange, London 9^th December 2011
Building Progressive UIs with Grails gr8conf EU, Copenhagen 19^th May 2011