Welcome

You've reached the professional home page of Niall McCarroll. I'm a software developer - my current interests include open source, data mining, cloud computing and dynamic languages.

Philosophy

This site aims to reflect a parsimonious approach to software and web design. In the code snippets section you'll find a number of examples which use dynamic languages (the family of programming languages formerly known as scripting languages) in an attempt to find a simple way to implement useful or interesting functionality.

Many of code snippets are used to construct the content on this site, the main tool being microcms, a very simple python-based file based content management system in which most functionality is implemented using plugin scripts.

News

New svgworld snippet renders a 3D world map to SVG.