Who We Are
Denny de la Haye
Denny got a ZX81 when he was 8 years old, and has been programming computers ever since. He's been building websites for personal and academic projects since 1996, and professionally since 1999. After graduating from university in 2000 with a first class honours degree in Computing, he worked at the University of Cambridge for 18 months, before being lured away from academia by the bright lights and shiny baubles of commercial web development.
He is passionate about open source software and the communities around it. He founded the Milton Keynes Linux User Group, is an active member of the London Perl Mongers, and has been volunteering as staff on freenode for several years now. He has contributed code to various open source projects, and started a few of his own. Most of the software he has written or contributed to is used to create and build online communities.
He spends the vast majority of his waking hours on the Internet; working, learning, and socialising. On a good day they're all the same thing.
Helen Lambert
Helen is a freelance artist and designer, and has been running her own creative businesses since 2006. For most of the last year she has been working as Lead Designer at Online Galleries and Zikru. She spends hours reading design blogs, and is passionate about creating expressive typography, evocative graphics, and elegant code. She has an ongoing love affair with CSS which she doesn't see ending any time soon.
As a designer, she is completely self-taught, with over ten years' experience creating and coding websites by hand. She discovered the Internet at the age of 13, and within a year she had taught herself HTML, bought a domain and constructed her own website. Within two years she was hosting other people's. The design bug stayed with her throughout four years at Cambridge, where she was awarded a double First and an MPhil in Classics. A career in design and front-end development seemed inevitable.
When Helen is not making websites, she spends her time painting, gardening, blogging, building art installations at music festivals, and playing the saxophone.
