Dylan Beattie (dylan.beattie)

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Dylan Beattie is a developer based in London, where he works as the tech lead at Spotlight, developing software for the theatre and casting industry. He wrote his first web page in 1994. Three years later, he found out what the Web actually was, and promptly abandoned a career in mathematics because programming looked way more fun and had at least as many brackets. He's been building Web apps on Microsoft technology since ASP was part of the Windows NT 4 Option Pack, and he was writing server-side domain models in Javascript way before it was cool. He even once ran code in JScript.NET. Dylan works on everything from Fluent NHibernate to CSS frameworks to user stories to database index tuning. He's consequently very interested in designing systems that use diverse software platforms to deliver a cohesive experience - software that looks great, works well, and no-one cares that behind the scenes there's .NET talking to Javascript talking to Ruby talking to legacy code.