About
Colin Harrington is a Software Developer and Consultant. Beyond studying Computer Science at Bethel University in Arden Hills, Colin has 5+ years of professional experience in software development as well as 10+ years of web application development. Colin has a special interest in the areas of Web 2.0, Grails, Silverlight, distributed computing, and a keen interest in online streaming media. Additionally, Colin is an active guitarist and loves spending time with his wife and two children.
I am a talented, skilled and creative technologist with a broad range of experiences looking to make the use of advanced technologies commonplace in our daily lives.
I also own a small business focusing on smaller websites and applications called Web Mentality.
Specialties:
Systems Architecture, Networking, Streaming Video, Web Application Infrastructure, Java/Swing, Groovy, Javascript + frameworks, AJAX, JSON, CSS, PHP, C/C++, VB.NET, C#, .NET 2, WCF, WPF (indigo, avalon), YACC/BISON, SOA, RESTful Services, Grails, MySQL, MSSQL, SQL Reporting Services, Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, Mac OSC, Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora), VMWare
