About Mark Kirby

I’m a web developer based in Brighton, currently freelancing.

Over the past 3 years I’ve been Lead Developer with award-winning mobile design agency ribot, creating award-winning mobile and touch screen apps including the Tesco online shopping app for Nokia, Tesco Food for the chrome web store, and a double award-winning Flash Lite app. My focus was on Javascript and web, using PhoneGap to package apps such as KanjiCards for the app stores.

My real passion is for creating clean, succinct and well crafted code, regardless of the language. In the past 10 years I’ve worked with over 10 different languages, picking them up fast but taking the time to find the most efficient ways of using them.

I’m a regular contributor to .net magazine (Practical Web Design outside of the UK), and have written articles on PhoneGap, Responsive Web Design and Adobe’s attempts to beat Apple at its own game. You can find me most months in the Big Question pages.

This year I gave the keynote, a Mobile 101, at the US Federal Reserve Bank’s annual web conference, and have spoken at smaller local events such as Async. Contact me if you would like me to speak at your event.

My main areas of experience include Javascript, HTML5, CSS, Selenium, PhoneGap, Python, TDD, build systems on Rake, Jenkins as well as some iOS, Ruby and Windows Phone 7.