Areas of Expertise

The main areas I work in are:

Mail and Spam Filtering (Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, SpamAssassin, DSPAM)

Perl - both cgi and standalone

MySQL (in particular in combination with Perl/PHP)

Unix/Linux administration (eg Apache, Bind, load-balancing)

Networking: Ethernet, hardware, TCP/IP, packet filtering (iptables)

HTTP

HTML/DHTML/XHTML and CSS

XML

Tcl/Tk

Technical Writing

In addition to the above, I also have a good working knowledge in the following:

Java

Javascript

C/C++

Linux x86 Assembly

Python

Bash scripting

I mostly work with the following distributions (listed in order of preference):

Debian and Ubuntu

Slackware

CentOS

Fedora (inc SELinux) and RHEL

Gentoo

SuSE

Services

• Home
• Linux Consultancy
• Web Development
• Linux Network Security
• Server/Website Performance

Code

• Ghoti: IRC Client for X11
• Dialog Quiz
• Apache Fingerprinting: mod_pof
• mod_miserable (Apache)
• Website Performance Testing
• Firefox Toolbar Tutorial
• SEO Postcodes (OS Commerce)

vBulletin

• vBulletin Performance Tuning
• LBCache, vBulletin Cache
• vBulletin Anti-spam Hack
• vBulletin AutoLinker

Data

• UK Postcode Database
• UK Telephone Area Codes
• IP Address Map Database

Fun Stuff

• Stealing browser history with JS and CSS
• Cowsay
• Spam Poetry
• Movie Plot Generator

 pete@linuxbox.co.uk
(+44) 07890 592198