Welcome to Orchard's World

This is the home of Dave Orchard. You can reach Dave at orchard at pacificspirit dot com, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook

Dave is doing consulting on scalable Web architectures, Publish and Subscribe Systems, Social Networks and doing iPhone and Ruby on Rails development while looking for a full-time position (CTO, Architecture, more consulting). His recent work at BEA Systems was the Web and Web Services standards technical lead, representing BEA on W3C, OASIS, WS-I and other standards bodies. He's currently an elected representative of the W3C TAG and finishing of the last of his 3 terms.  You can find a history of specifications and articles that he's authored or co-authored. A resume is available.

Life

Photos are being published to Flickr, which has a cool Photo sets feature and a pre-existing photo dir.

We're interested in Wines, coffee shops, and Restaurants with reviews. Visitors will also find a Visitor's guide to Vancouver.

He regularly does the Grind on Grouse mountain.