Barry Walsh
Owner at Draegtun Systems Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarry Walsh is a versatile IT consultant, developer and owner of Draegtun Systems with 17 years of professional experience delivering web development, Perl programming, data munging and sysadmin/DevOps solutions from London. He has a long track record of contracting across market intelligence and customer-focused organisations, combining hands-on coding with infrastructure and operational support. Barry contributes to open-source tooling—most notably helping linguist correctly identify Rebol file extensions—showing attention to language heuristics and niche language knowledge. Comfortable running a small company end-to-end, he pairs practical legacy-system expertise with modern backend problem solving and an appetite for clarifying tricky edge cases in code.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
linguistics10
perl10
grammars10
lingo10
linguist10
rebol10
lingui10
syntax-highlighting10
utf9
oop9
ruby9
regex9
pdf9
unicode9
documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
github-linguist/linguist
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Barry contributed to the repository by adding sample files and code changes related to various Rebol extensions. The commits involved creating Rebol code samples with different file extensions, including `.reb`, `.rebol`, `.r2`, and `.r`. Additionally, the user worked on disambiguating the `.r` extension between Rebol and R, implementing code within the `linguist/heuristics.rb` file to correctly identify the programming language. The user demonstrated knowledge of Rebol and its syntax, along with an understanding of how to configure code samples and integrate them into a larger project.
linguisticlanguage-grammarslanguage-statisticspull-requestrequest
draegtun/PrettifyRebol
May 2013 - Jul 2016
Rebol syntax highlighting using Google Code Prettify
Contributions:87 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 3 months
google-code-prettifycode-prettifyhighlightingrebolsyntax-highlighting
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