Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Media & entertainment

MySpace

Integrating MySpace's .NET estate with WordPress.

Years
2010
Sector
Social media
Role
Senior software developer
Outcome
Completed

What was wrong

The site needed its .NET platform to talk to WordPress.

What I built

The integration.

What happened

Left once the product I had been brought in to build was finished.

Stack

.NET C# WordPress PHP

Have a system like this one?

Tell me what it does, what it is written in, and what breaks when it goes down. I will say plainly whether I can help.

Tell me what it runs on

Related work

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2009–2026Still running

Universal Music Group (via New Reach Consulting)

Music catalogue and rights · Architect and technical lead

Seventeen years through one consultancy. At UMG, a catalogue feed reconciled field by field against the rights database, and core queries cut from thirty seconds to under one.

Classic ASP C# .NET Azure Azure SQL
2013–2015Handed over

CAPS Payroll

Entertainment payroll · Sole developer and rescuer

The engine that calculates entertainment residuals, rebuilt from scratch after both sources of truth for the union rules turned out to be wrong.

LightSwitch Silverlight C# .NET SQL Server Azure
2012Delivered

Deluxe Digital Studios

Film localisation and post-production · Senior developer

A subtitle authoring tool for a film localisation team, and an encoding farm that had been failing silently — proved against seven deliberate failure cases.

Silverlight WCF C# .NET XAML WCF RIA Services