Good day!  My name is Gary Waddell, owner of On Middle Ground Inc.  On Middle Ground Inc, or OMGi for short.   I am a consultant specializing in building custom web applications, either for your own website, or perhaps for public and private (ie Intranets) web based applications.  This site is not meant to flog OMGi, it’s a source for developers to come to and learn and share information about multiple areas of software development.

I have been building software applications now since the early 1990′s.  For the past number of years, I have written J2EE based software, mostly for the web.  In the past 6 or 7 years now, I spread my knowledge into PHP and mySQL based apps.  I still sway to Java for my immediate development interests, but for standard, small to mid sized companies, PHP works very well for me.  I do find PHP to be quite cumbersome when I get into larger applications.

But enough about that stuff, I am avid about learning new things and learning from other people.   I’ve spent the past few months getting up to speed with Ajax and came across the prototype framework, and was quite impressed at how simple this really was.  I do follow sitepoint.com quite a bit, and also very impressed with their books and their general content as it certainly keeps me informed.  I love graphics design as well, but I am no expert at it.  As I age, I hope to maybe dive into graphics design a bit more.  I enjoy reading the magazine Practical Web Design as it gives me some inspirations and also keeps me on my toes.

So look around, drop some comments about things I blog about.  The learning can never end.

Gary