About James

James Wilson is the lead front-end web developer at Bluespark. He uses this space to blog about travel, web development, Drupal, open source, mac, and various other topics.

Hi, I’m James. This is my blog.

I write about varied topics here, including everything from cuisine, to programming, to travel. I’ve been traveling and living in various places around the world for several years. These are my stories.

How I got here

After graduating in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, and a few brief stints of corporate work, I left for an extended sabatical to travel the world and ended up settling in Cuenca, Ecuador in 2006.

I turned to web development to sustain my travels and began learning the emerging Web standards of the day. In 2007 and ‘08, as the number of website projects steadily increased, I began compiling my ideas into a reusable custom CMS written in Classic ASP VBScript.

As the inevitable frustration grew with being the sole maintainer of a codebase written in an aging closed-source programming language, I turned to PHP, Drupal, and the thriving open source community — embracing the concept of standing on the shoulders of giants instead of writing everything from scratch.

Today I contribute primarily to Drupal and various other Open Source projects on GitHub.

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Find me online

• Bluespark team page
• GitHub user page
• Drupal user page
• StackExchange user page
• CodePen
• The Noun Project
• Medium
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Spotify
• Google+

About the blog

This blog has existed and evolved through many technology stacks over the years. The current incantation is a return to simplicity and speed.

• The website’s current version is v2.4.1.
• The website’s content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.
• The website’s software is released under the MIT License, the README may be viewed online and the codebase may be forked from GitHub jameswilson/jameswilson.github.io.
• Runs on the Jekyll framework, a static-site generator written in Ruby; inspired by and forked from the Poole implementation for Jekyll by Mark Otto.
• Hosted for free on GitHub Pages.
• Coded with ❤️ in Sublime Text, an amazing code editor.

Thanks

If you’ve found anything I’ve made useful, please consider paying for my tea via a PayPal donation.

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