My name is Brenton Alker. I hail from Brisbane, Australia. Although I am currently in Canada, I’m still telecommuting to Brisbane.

I am a web applications developer, tech junkie and chronic lurker; often found on the fringes of the PHP Community (especially #phpc on irc.freenode.net) under the alias of Tekerson.

My projects are primarily in PHP with the occasional smattering of python, which I am trying to do more of, and .NET (C# & VB).

I also like to get my hands dirty and understand the entire stack, maintaining a number of servers (LAMP, email and occasionally IIS), both for work and my personal projects; such as my blog.

Outside of work, I am often depriving myself of sleep to learn something shiny and new and hopefully give something back to some of the F/OSS community.

Most of the information that fills my posts is probably out there on the web somewhere (almost everything is), but these describe points that are of interest to me, or contain subtleties that took me some time to find and/or understand or was just of interest.

If you like/don’t like what you see here, if you have corrections/extensions/comments/tips about anything I write, please feel free to post comments, it’s always nice to have some input. (Makes me feel loved…)