About
Hi! I’m Robbie MacKay.
Geek, idealist, environmentalist, web developer.
Out to live a life that matters. A life that makes a difference.
I love life and people – and I want to make a difference to people. I’m interested in sustainability and empowering communities everywhere. I see no reason why everyone in the world should not be guaranteed the basics of survival.
I work for organisations I respect and admire, organisations that make a difference to the world. I’ve worked for Greenpeace NZ. Now I work at Torchbox as a Drupal developer, working with a great people and great clients.
I contribute to open source projects, most recently Ushahidi and the wider crisis mapping community.
I’m a web developer and I have a Bachelor of Engineering in computer systems. I work mainly in PHP and a bit of Python but I’ve worked in C, Javascript, Java, VHDL and other things I can’t remember right now. I also studied robotics, computer vision and electronic hardware design.
I learned to program sometime between age 8 and 10, when I started reading the Commodore 64 manual (from cover to cover) because I was bored. I learned HTML at 11 and moved onto other work on the web from there.
hey robbie thanks for the follow on twitter… did you understand the nature of my website?
I like that u are eco warrior… trust me on this… I’m dealing with rather insane americans at this point…
darryl
22 Oct 09 at 2:02 pm
Hey Darryl,
I didn’t get to far looking at your website.
It’s not totally clear what you’re about from the first page. But then I didn’t watch the video yet
Great to link up with another person out to change the world
Robbie MacKay
28 Oct 09 at 12:11 pm
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