{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-14T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bafford.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:45:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m John Bafford. Through my consulting company, <a href=\"https:\/\/longstride.tech\/\">Longstride Tech, LLC<\/a>, I&#8217;m a freelance developer, specializing in PHP and Symfony application development, iOS app development, and legacy application remediation. I am open to new clients. If you have a need I may be able to help you with, feel free to reach out.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly, I was the Vice President of Programming Services at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrickfactory.com\/\">The Brick Factory<\/a>, based in Washington, DC. I was also a\u00a0Co-Founder and CTO at WiseGuy, an online peer tutoring platform.<\/p>\n<p>For over 25 years, I&#8217;ve developer web applications in PHP. Additionally, I&#8217;ve worked with Swift, C\/C++, Objective C, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, shell scripting, and other languages. I have written <a href=\"\/software\/\">a rather large quantity of software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also enjoy hiking and beer brewing. Since 2016, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/longstride.net\/\">completed more than 11,000 miles of hiking<\/a> on long-distance trails.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in May 2000 with a degree in Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p>I am a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zend.com\/en\/yellow-pages\/ZEND012177\">Zend Certified PHP Engineer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m John Bafford. Through my consulting company, Longstride Tech, LLC, I&#8217;m a freelance developer, specializing in PHP and Symfony application development, iOS app development, and legacy application remediation. I am open to new clients. If you have a need I may be able to help you with, feel free to reach out. Formerly, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bafford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}