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Gareth Dirlam
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Get to Know Gareth Dirlam
Senior Systems Architect for eshowings.com, Web Programmer and DBA.Eshowings.com is a real-estate appointment center, and I am the new systems architect there. I have joined active rain, primarily to find out what interests my current user base. I want to know what technology marketing tools are being used in the industry.What email techniques are being employed, what email clients are being used in the industry.What sort of showing feedback systems are prefered and what information is sought, and how much is given.I basically thought that by joining Active Rain I would keep up with industry trends better.


So while I am gearing up to build a new interface for our customers in the Real-Estate Community, I thought I would put a place up on the web to talk about some of the things I am doing.

Alot of the content of the blogs are going to be about Search Engine Optimization though.  My reason for interest in this area probably differ from alot of the active rain community, in that SEO to me is a properly structured site.  And I work and the back end of these sites, and so I like things to be some what organized.  SEO is just all about putting your stuff in such a manner so that they are found in the optimal place.  And I like that, if we all do things the way Google wants, fine by me, just as long as the whole web industry does things the same way.  Conforming is good in technology.

 

Certifications

Web Programer and Database administrator

Languages & Technologies:

ASP.NETVB.NETC#Web ServicesXML/XSLTPHPSQLServerMySQLDB2(X)HTMLJavascriptCSS

I specialize in data integrations and web enabling back-end database systems. I am currently doing lots of RETS work.

I have developed a asp.net web service solution for rets 1.5, that uses the C based librets libraries to access diverse MLS data across the nation. I am very interested in what Google is up to, mostly from an intellectual stand point. I am very impressed with their ability to monitize cloud(Grid) computing, they are the only private industry to do so.

 

As a developer I am really very database centric, meaning that I use SQL Server alot for my web needs.  I also do a lot of XML work, and even stream XML out of the database using stored procedures.  I believe strongly in web standards, and try to follow them as much as I can.  I use CSS and do lots of JavaScript work.  I belive in ASP.net like it was old timy religion.  Master Pages in ASP.net are the best thing since sliced bread.

I hand code all my html, using the (X)HTML standard, I usually target the transitional doc type.

I don't care much for adobe's flash, but I think Flex is pretty cool. I do know some action script, but it's rusty.

I did a stint as a web services designer for a big multi-national corperation, which helped out my understanding of the SOAP protocols, but I still hate on all things Java(and most things big blue).

I build server controls in asp.net, and know how to use the reflections libraries to get those controls to appear in the designer.

Even though I am a web programmer I am a true programmer who knows the difference between an interface and an abstract base class.  I don't use multi-dimensional arrays, I use structures.  I understand overloading and polymorphism.  And I do not think that overloading and polymorphism are the same thing.

I like both VB.net and C# equally well, but differently.  C# is for real programmers, while VB.net just has too much convient plumbing to be ignored.  Even though I prefer to method calls is C#, and think that casting to type in c# is just easier to read, and think that the IF...THEN...ELSE syntax of VB.net is just silly, I still like the VB.net parameter arrays and the Optional Keyword in the parameters of VB.net are syntactically plumbing that makes my life too easy.

I am currently writing in VB.net, but I miss C#.

Learning C# made my JavaScript so much better. 

 

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Real-Estate Information Professional: Senior Systems Architect, Programmer, DBA, Network Administrator for eShowings.com "your real-estate appointment center" serving agents nationwide