Hi, I’m a new code slinger at MindTouch. Having used and authored Open Source projects for many years, this is finally my chance to contribute back in an official capacity. I will be working on Dream and DekiScript, helping with daily maintenance and driving it further along the roadmap.

I first came across MindTouch a while back when looking for a simple framework for building RESTful services without the weight of ASP.NET and the unnecessary dependencies it pulls in for things I’d never need. I especially liked the way Dream services were discoverable via the blueprints. But I wasn’t even aware they were looking for someone to help with Dream and Deki. For years, I’ve had automated searches to keep track of what the San Diego .NET scene looked like. Recently I added a new search to see if Erlang was picking up as a skill locally. While I’d used these searches for idle spectating, not really looking for a new gig, when I found the same posting in both my C# and my Erlang feeds, I knew I couldn’t afford not follow up on it. After talking to the crew here, I came away with an opportunity that hit on virtually every one my interests at once. Server side C# infrastructure running on mono or .NET, heterogenous, distributed computing, both in-process and distributed concurrency, functional programming. I could go on…

I’ve been doing server side infrastructure for a number of years now, coming up through scripting languages, moving back and forth between Windows and Unix platforms as needed and settling on C# as my current axe of choice. I’m excited to be working on a product that is deployed on such a broad spectrum and the capabilties of DekiScript and extensibility of Deki are just a lot of fun to work with. I’m currently spending my time digging into the code and trying to get up to speed so that I can start actively contributing and hoping to extend the RESTful approach across other transports for even greater concurrency capabilities.