Alex Pooley's Blog

Hello there, my name is Alex Pooley and I'm a freelance web developer residing in Perth, Western Australia. My passion is in the development of web sites that solve everyday problems. Here's a gallery of some of my notable work. If you need a web site designer or developer, contact me with further details. Lastly, you can read more about me.

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December 17th, 2007

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My Projects

These are projects that I have created from scratch.

Social Welfare
Social Welfare is a Ruby On Rails plugin that makes it easy to manipulate children objects from within a parent view. Find out more on the Social Welfare page.

Open Source Contributions

Below are projects that I have contributed too.

Hpricot
Added Xpath axes support and added ability to return attribute values. Change sets 166, 167, 168

RoR Postgresql Driver sub-second patch

Patched the Ruby On Rails core Postgresql database driver. The patch details are on the Rails Trac site.

Nitro SQLite Database Driver Patches
Fixed a memory leak issue with the SQLite database driver found in the Nitro Project ruby based web framework. Also made various contributions improving the performance and documentation of the driver.

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