About MGA

MGA provides a wide range of custom programming services to clients anywhere in the world.

The principal, Mike Gossland, has 17 years of full-time computing experience, in a wide range of activities from back-end webserver operations to Windows desktop applications. As the chief software architect, developer and webmaster for a financial-analysis public corporation over a 7 year period, Mike has seen a lot of action on both the Windows and the Linux operating systems.

With this wealth of first-hand experience, Mike has come to specialize in a wide-ranging mix of of technologies. On the Windows side, he's an expert in TradeStation's EasyLanguage (a programming language for stock and commodity trading systems) as well as in Microsoft's Visual Basic and Excel programming platforms.

On the Linux side, he's a Perl guru who developed object-oriented Perl modules to read a high-volume financial data feed into a MySQL database and build complex stock charts in real-time. He also ran an e-commerce-enabled website with dynamic content and permissioned subscribers, so he has a great deal of CGI, Apache and MySQL experience. (This site offers the same Perl tutorial he taught to Perl novices at a community college.)

Mike is an expert in website content and is well versed in HTML for web page construction, Javascript, and cascading style sheets (CSS). He uses hand-coding, perl tools and FrontPage or Dreamweaver to construct full-featured websites in a very short period of time.

Mike earned a Master of Science in Physics in 1978 and a Professional Engineering license in the province of Ontario in 1989. He served as a Director of a public corporation for over 7 years.

Contact MGA by email at info234@gossland.com or call 250-756-3970. MGA is located on the West Coast and is on Pacific Time.

Copyright 2003-2007 Michael Gossland and Associates. All rights reserved.