I did a presentation on Macgyver at our fortnightly breakfast meeting. How does Macgyver relate to The Farm?
Macgyver used objects and tools around him to get himself out of a jam. When a tool was not present or there was nothing immediately useful around, he used what was available and improvised.
As programmers, we are often presented with tasks that involve a bit of lateral thinking. Gone are the days of casual R&D. These days we must often (and quickly) survey what tools are available to us, and then MacGyver together a solution (even if it means making the tools ourselves).
Here are some of the technologies we have MacGyvered together at the The Farm (used in various combinations)
- .Net 1, 2, 3, 3.5
- CSS/ HTML
- AJAX
- Lytebox
- PHP
- LINQ
- Entity Spaces
- Umbraco
- Flash/Flex
- Silverlight
- Wordpress
- .Net Blog Engine
- After Effects
- Haymail / MailBuild API's