You have stumbled on one of the quiet out of the way places on the Internet, the home page of Mike Wilson. You are probably asking yourself "Who the Hell is Mike Wilson?" and "Should I care?" The second question is easy to answer: probably not. But as you have landed here, why not spend a minute answering the first?
Until 2002 I was a software developer. I spent 20-something years in the computer industry. In 2002, I packed it in and went off to live my wildest dream: four years at art college. In June 2006, I completed my degree and received a Ba (Hons) Fine Art 2.1. I am now back at work in the IT industry. In February 2007, I joined Beds Direct developing in-house systems in Java, Ruby, php, Javascript, HTML etc.
I have several projects on the go at the moment. Gravy was implemented for Silk and Components was significantly enhanced for Silk. All of these are published under the Free Software Foundation's GNU Public License.
| Babblemind Components | A collection of Java Swing components, data models and property adaptors. |
| Gravy | A Dependency Injection (Inversion of Control) framework particularly aimed at thick client Java Swing applications. |
| Music Collection | A small (but not too small) relational database for evaluating SQL tools and libraries. |
| Silk/QL | An interactive query tool for the Java Persistence API's QL language. |
| vimproject | A vim add on script. A useful way to browse and open the files in a project without having to type the file name each time. |
As well as using photography in my art work, I enjoy taking landscapes, recording the beautiful scenery around North Wales, North West England and the West Midlands.
My Flickr account is a mixture of photographs of my artwork and more general photography:
Make your own paper house! Several people have expressed an interest in making their own copy of one of my paper houses. Here is a project for anyone who is interested.
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