James Cocker
Web Developer at Purple Spider Web Design
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cocker is a seasoned web developer and founder with 13+ years building standards-compliant sites using HTML5, CSS, PHP and MySQL, and a long-standing specialist in the SilverStripe CMS and Sapphire framework. Based in Edinburgh, he runs Purple Spider Web Design, combining front-end design (Photoshop, CSSEdit, Coda) with back-end development and server/IT administration experience from roles in healthcare and corporate settings. His open-source contributions include back-end enhancements to the widely used silverstripe-blog module, improving CMS usability through model and GridField refinements. Comfortable across Mac OS X and Windows with a BSc in Computer Science from St Andrews, he brings a pragmatic blend of freelance entrepreneurship and institutional IT discipline. Colleagues value his knack for turning CMS limitations into customizable, maintainable solutions that streamline editorial workflows.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of St Andrews
Github Skills (8)
php10
silverstripe10
back-end-development10
webapp9
web-application9
web-development9
git8
fest4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-blog
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Blog module for Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Silverstripe blog module, focusing on refining the backend functionality and user interface elements. They implemented changes to the BlogPost model, including updating publish dates and setting labels for the page title. Further contributions included modifying the GridFieldBlogPostState to display additional information, such as "modified" tags and enhanced timer states within the CMS. The user also wrapped CMS fields to enable customization.
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purplespider/silverstripe-section-overview
Nov 2015 - Apr 2024
A simple section overview page for SilverStripe that provides summaries and links to it's subpages.
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 years 6 months
subpagesoverview-pagesilverstripelinkssummaries
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