Stephen Lewis is the founder, fearless leader, and general dogsbody of Experience, a web development consultancy.

Stephen began his web career back in the late 90s, when font tags were the height of sophistication, and Flash seemed like the solution rather than the problem. Long before then, he was programming in BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, and several other languages which have utterly failed to withstand the test of time.

Perhaps because of this history of obsolescence, Stephen has a curious affinity for PHP. It's not young or hip, isn't particularly pretty, and never gets invited to the cool parties, but somehow it gets the job done. These may be further reasons for Stephen's aforementioned feelings of empathy.

When he's not wrangling PHP, Stephen dabbles in JavaScript, and the occasional bit of Python, although he secretly doesn't trust significant whitespace. In times of weakness, Stephen has been known to turn chairs upside-down to see how they're made, a sad and disturbing legacy of his Furniture Design degree (which has been about as much use as FORTRAN).

Should you wish to peer deeply into the dark recesses of Stephen's psyche, you can find him blogging irregularly, and Tweeting too frequently.