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Rich Gwilliam Full Stack Developer
Rich is a full stack developer with a love of building cool stuff with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, Linux, and all kinds of open source tech.
He's all about getting stuff done and learning new things to do it right.
Give him money and he'll probably do it for you, he's nice like that.
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
- rich.gwilliam@gmail.com
- Website
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Craft CMS
Craft is, as the name suggests, a bit of an artisanal CMS - the web developer's choice. It's not as widely known as Wordpress or Drupal but the people who use it respect it greatly. I've worked with it a few times, and I've found it manageable but versatile. Not my choice of base framework, but solid, and I can get by in Yii2.
So I was delighted when it was recently announced that it's switching from Yii2 to Laravel as a base framework in the next major version - that's 6, due to release on the back end of 2026. I'm really looking forward to finding out what the combination of two of my favourite applications comes to, and the introduction of the Craft ecosystem into the Laravel one.
I've been using Craft CMS since Feb 2024 (1 years).
Engagements using Craft CMS
Contract Senior Full-stack Developer
Eido Healthcare
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024Successful resurrection of a mothballed legacy Craft CMS project without documentation or input from the original developer; planning and provisioning of AWS infrastructure to support the software based on Docker images.
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- Git
- NPM
- Javascript
- Craft CMS
- Linux
- LAMP Stack Admin
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Suite
- Laravel
- Docker
- BASH
- Figma
- Project planning
- Ops Development
- High capacity systems
- Apache
- Postman
- API development
- Technical writing