Martin Wood

freelance web developer based in Cardiff, UK

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How I GTD

David Allen’s 2002 book ‘Getting Things Done‘ (GTD) certainly struck a chord with programmer types. Unfortunately the classic GTD system espoused by Allen seems to fall apart over time. The biggest culprit for me was an ever growing ‘Someday /

Martin June 8, 2015 Business, Personal, Productivity No Comments Read more

My Daily Routine as a Remote Freelance Developer

Since 2007 I’ve been living my personal Holy Grail – that of a freelance developer working remotely from home. This, like most worthwhile things in life, has taken a large dollop of discipline, reliable broadband and at least one pair of

Martin May 19, 2015October 30, 2015 Business, Freelance, Life, Personal No Comments Read more

Ioncube for Rails?

Having just completed my first mISV product, I’m already starting to think about potential new projects. Despite Datafeed Studio being written in PHP, it is fair to say it is not my programming language of choice. Datafeed Studio is a

Martin Wood May 27, 2008 Business, mISV, Ruby 2 Comments Read more

A New Micro-ISV Is Born

Well, I’ve only gone and done it, folks. I’ve finally become a bona fide Micro-ISV (mISV). Today marks the launch of my first product, Datafeed Studio – a web application that allows affiliate marketeers to create price comparison sites, niche

Martin Wood May 26, 2008 Business, mISV, Personal 6 Comments Read more

Long hours? Poor project management

From Strange Brand – Branding and Marketing Blog – The First Year: 7 Lessons Learned Lesson 4: Long hours? Poor project management. Having been part of the design/development community for so long, I’m no stranger to the concept of “crunch

Martin Wood December 17, 2005 Business, Professional No Comments Read more

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Full-time freelance web and mobile developer who loves building things, or making existing things better.

Involved in commercial application development since 1997 - freelance since 2007, mostly focused on Ruby on Rails (10+ years), Javascript (React, Angular, jQuery) and PHP/MySQL type stuff, after several years working with Java, Perl and C/C++.

I also dabble in mobile development, both native iOS and Android and hybrid HTMl5 apps.

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