Andrew Turner Email Address

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I am an independent web software consultant and game-studies researcher based in the Boston area. I have been designing, implementing, and maintaining software since 1998 for a variety of fields, including business, education, science, and games. My particular expertise involves web-based applications. I sell my work through Appleseed Software Consulting, a company that I founded in early 2008. I have a passion for the study of games, and their increasingly central role in modern society. Through my blog and video series, The Gameshelf, I strive to improve the critical discourse regarding games of all sorts, both analog and digital. As a technical writer, my published works include "Mac OS X in a Nutshell" and "Perl & XML", both published by O'Reilly Media, as well as a number of articles, and quite a lot of programmer and user documentation. Specialties: Game studies, expository and critical writing, web application programming, protocol design, user interface design, user documentation, programmer documentation, software project management, Perl, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML::Mason, SQL, MySQL, LAMP