BIO
My name is Phil Wallach, and I am a software developer based in Sydney, Australia.
I discovered computers in 1974/1975, when dad brought home an issue of Electronics Australia featuring microprocessors.
My first computer was a KIM-1 circa 1978. It was programmed through a 23 key keypad, displayed results on 6 7-segment displays, and had 1K of RAM.
startups and business ventures
| Imperial Galaxy | 2005 - now | MMOG |
| V-Sec | 2002 - 2007 | Web-based task management and workflow |
| AsiaEntry | 2000 - 2001 | VC-related business development |
| Mail Miner | 1997 - 2001 | Email data mining |
| Dominion Games | 1996 - 1997 | MMOG |
| Basemail | 1993 - 1996 | X.400 email client |
| Pandemonium | 1986 - 1991 | RPG conventions / writing |
| 6d6 Systems | 1986 - 1988 | Unix bureau / ISP |
clients
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Deutsche Bank
Sydney Light Rail
AusDoc
Digital Equipment Corporation
Illawarra Technology Corporation
National Electronic Interchange Services
Tower Technology
TLE
Australia Bank
Softway
TCG
Kilpatrick Green
Neology
Lend Lease
standards committees
IT11/4 EDIFACT ANZ Technical Assessment Group, 1991 - 1996
IT11/7 Open EDI Standards Committee, 1995 - 1996
Current Project
I am currently working on a Facebook MMOG with Nix Entertainment and other partners. The client is developed using OpenLaszlo compiled to Flash. The backend is written in PHP talking to a MySQL database. The systems runs on EC2 servers in the cloud backed by S3 for persistent storage. The development environment uses Perforce for configuration management and version control, a build system built on make, Mantis for bug tracking and dotProject for project management. Mantis is integrated with Perforce and dotProject. All my code is written using vim.
This Blog
I post notes, ideas, problems and solutions arising from my current project (see above) on this blog. If you look at my current project, then you know what to expect!
I write the sort of entries I like to read, that is short technical pieces solving a real problem with working source code. I generally strip out error checking and comments to improve code readability.
When I have a technical problem I have found the Internet an unbelievably rich resource. This is my way of giving something back.
Professional Links
Base Information Systems
My company, that delivers software development services to organisation such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Deutsche Bank and Sydney Light Rail.
LinkedIn: PhilWallach
My professional profile and contacts.
Bloglines: Evangelus
Blogs that I (try and) keep up with.
del.icio.us: Evangelus
Websites that are interesting enough to link to.
