Development (PHP/SQL)

Worked with memcache, multiple SOAP APIs, google map API.
Lots of business software like FPDF.
Used CitrusDB and SOAP to create an inhouse billing system for our accounting department.
Also experienced in dealing with screen readers for the blind.

Javascript

jQuery, jQuery UI, AJAX and basic non-framework JS. What more does one need?

Design

XHTML compliance, HTML 5, CSS 3, JSON and XML.
Very comfortable with Photoshop. (7, CS2, CS5)

Blogging/CMS

Have in-depth experience with Wordpress and Tumblr.
Also basic SEO principles.

I started getting serious with web development in 2007. I had a small foundation in web development due to attending a tech school, and rather than spend my senior year re-learning office applications, I decided to try making my own website. After getting very excited by the date() and include() functions PHP offered, I knew this was what I wanted to do for my career. After graduation, along with a part-time job, I started seriously working on MonBre and continued to learn web and game design as I coded it. Eventually the effects of being a newbie game/web developer hung hard onto MonBre, and I was forced to put it on hiatus.

With MurCity, I scoured the web for any technology or technique I should know, and learned it. jQuery and modern design techniques inspired me to completely drop MonBre and pick up MurCity with the intention of one day getting it onto Facebook.

In November of 2010, I finally entered the field professionally. Within three months I had learned a lot, and it actually became physically stressful to even look at the earlier code behind MurCity, and all of MonBre. What's great about web development is that even at a job, you're still learning. There's always more to learn, some way to do something better. A new technology to embrace. I code something nearly every day - either at work, home, or both.

The name "Vael Victus" was chosen as my 'net name because my birth name is simply not as memorable, or interesting.