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 in production

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 and how I would approach it.

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, core queries cut from thirty seconds to under one, and later a festival ticketing and cashless-payment architecture on Azure.

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

CAPS Payroll

Entertainment payroll · Sole developer and rescuer

A residuals calculation engine rebuilt from scratch on LightSwitch, Silverlight and SQL Server after both sources of truth for the union rules were found to be wrong.

LightSwitch Silverlight C# .NET SQL Server Azure
2012Delivered

Deluxe Digital Studios

Film localisation and post-production · Senior developer

A Silverlight subtitle authoring tool over WCF RIA Services, and a GPU encoding pipeline driving the vendor SDK rewritten so a crashed encode can no longer pass as a finished one.

Silverlight WCF C# .NET XAML WCF RIA Services