About
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| The Mad Gnomes have twenty years of software development experience covering a multitude of platforms, langauges and markets. | |
| The Gnome's software is used by tens of thousands of people all over the world. In fact users of the educational and utility applications cover more than 100 countries worldwide. | |
| For the last two years the Gnomes have been improve their photography skills and techniques, and learning some new programming languages. | |
Paul A Freshney :: Coder |
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| Software development is my main passion and has been for a very long time; I enjoy designing and building electronics projects with the Arduino and Picaxe microcontroller platforms; photography; and playing computer games. | |
| I recieved my first computer, a Commodore 16, as a Christmas present around 1984/5. A few years later I upgraded to a Commodore 64 and a few years after that, maintaining my love of Commodore computers, to an Amiga 500 and lastly, an Amiga 1200. I bought my first PC, an Apricot XEN LS II (second-hand for £500), in 1995, built my second PC a year or so later and upgraded regularly for the next 10 or so years. | |
| I bought a Dell 530 workstation in 2002, a Dell 690 workstation in 2008 (a fantastic machine, working around 10 hours a day - every day - for the last six years - but started to show its age with my Nikon D800's 40MB files and isn't the speed demon it once was) and my latest PC: a custom-built hex core i7 running at 4.4GHz with 32GB of RAM (two million times more than my first ever computer!). | |
| I have developed for many platforms over the years (Amiga, PC, Pocket PC, Gameboy, Mac and iPhone) using many languages (Assemlber (68000 and Z80), C, C++, Delphi, Pascal, PHP and Objective-C). Most of my development time is spent maintaining my iPhone and Mac apps but in mid-February I started on a new iPhone game which is now become my main project. Check out the blog for details of updates. | |