Hi, I am Jimmy MG Lim.

Over the decades, some are used to calling me “Guan”, “Jimmy” or “Gao¹ Shou³” (nickname “the high hand”). The high hand was hilarious, as it started as an early habit of me calling everyone else that.

I work in the specialist domains of Information Management, Software Engineering, Graphics & Editorial and Education.

I am the author of “butlerfox“, “Jswissknife”, “up² (usage provenance and prediction) framework” and “zenify series“. I have freelanced since 1997 on software development, worked at these inspiring companies ( Zencargo / QS / Grant Thornton / DEKO / Thoughtworks ) and have lectured at various institutions on software engineering.

You are most welcome to contact me either via email <mirageglobe@gmail.com> or twitter @mirageglobe. Twitter is better :D.

More about Me

Back in 2010 and I was proud to help deliver one of the first Cloud and Green Computing modules in UK at University of Kent. Earlier in 2000, I started web development and focused on helping small business web engineering and design.

Currently, I am involved in agile software development with high-level programming languages such as Javascript, Python, Ruby and most recently C. I am passionate in areas of people management, software engineering on “machine learning, prediction, automation” and “cultures and classic methods of astrology”.

When not doing the above, I am into comedy, reading, mudding, home DIY, cooking, collecting card & board games, rare coins & stamps.

Fun and Awards

• “Session Chair UKSIM2015” University of Cambridge UK 2015
• “Technology to Business Finalist” UoK 2012
• “Big Ideas Round One Finalist” UoK 2011
• “EPSRC Research Award” EU 2008
• “Jian Nan Temple National Photographic Competition 2nd Prize” Malaysia 2003
• “World’s Longest Paper Clip Chain” Book of Records 1998, 1999, 2000

Publications, Books and Events

• External Review Panel – Bournemouth University (2022)
• Secrets of the Face and Palm – Amazon Kindle, Google Play (2019)
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Face-Palm-traditional-prediction-ebook/dp/B07S8HZ5Q5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=secrets+of+the+face+and+palm&qid=1638136923&sr=8-1
• Automating Management of Resources on Desktop Machines – UKSIM (2015)
• Web Integration Guest Lecture – Bournemouth University (2015)
• Secrets of the Human Face and Palm – Amazon UK (2014) [Editor] – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1EBWEA
• A case to identify information provenance by cross relating data objects with mouse traces – ICCIE Conference France (2013)
• Social Media Workshop (2013) for Kent Enterprise
• Automatic Association of Personal Documents on the Cloud – UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
• A cloud based data integration framework (2012)
• Memristive Systems – UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
• Mobile HBase – UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
• Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems – IEEE Atlanta USA Speaker (2011)
• Course Design and Review Panel – University of Kent (2010)
• Personal Storage Grid Architecture: Consuming Cloud Data Space Resources. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol 2, No. 3 (2010)
• Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems. IEEE Electron Device Letters 31 (7) art. no. 5482202 pp.755-757 (2010)
• A Wireless Online Communication System for Small-Medium Enterprises. ICWI 2002: 665-668 (2002)

Open Source Projects

I strongly believe in the continuity and openness of software development. Thus, contribution to opensource is my special way of saying thanks to the community. The following are all Apache 2.0 licensed and free for use personally or commercially.

zenifywp – zenify series (WordPress / GetSimple / Sinatra) are themes designed to make the life of developers easier

butlerfox – butlerfox provides a simple interface for general users and especially server administrators. Samurai installs and setups the basic applications accordingly to best practises, leverages on your system tools and provides installation of packages for *nix system and Mac OS X.

jsf – jsf (jimmys swapfile) is the defacto way to enable/manage swapfiles on debian/ubuntu low memory systems in a simple way.

jsk – jsk (jimmys swissknife) is a collection of document, image, music and video (pdf/png/mp3/mp4) manipulation tools for standard output conversion. It also includes a shell/bash boilerplate and function library for building utilities.

upp – (currently closed – for learning engines licensing – please contact if you are interested) UPP usage provenance and prediction toolkit is a machine learning framework for multipurpose intelligent systems for learning based on usage behaviour,

HTML5Shiv for Meteor – HTML 5 Shiv is packaged for Meteor. HTML5shiv script is the defacto way to enable use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet Explorer. This meteor package embeds the script directly into the header using fast CDN jsdelivr.

SNAPSVG for Meteor – snapsvg is packaged for Meteor. This meteor module enables the use of SNAPSVG elements in your meteor app. This meteor package embeds the script directly into the header using fast CDN jsdelivr.

meteorbox – meteorbox is a cli app that simplifies deploying meteor apps to your system simply.  most tasks are automated and only requires a simple template to define variables for your cloud system.

Selected Projects

Here are some of the projects I have developed. Some are experiments, most are live for my clients. There are more projects, however due to anonymity agreements, I am not able to list them.

• acetravels berhad
• airinbottle campaign
• AllDayCity – city scape business platform – https://www.alldaycity.com
• BL art gallery
• Butlerfox – opensource servers bash automation provisioner – https://github.com/mirageglobe/butlerfox
• China embassy education UK
• CC8 logo design
• Eden-Geomancy
• Draw Card (Heroku) – http://drawcard.herokuapp.com
• Geniac accounting platform – https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/geniac
• GeomanDesignCulture
• Global workplace HR platform – http://www.global-workplace.com
• GM Agarwood – http://www.gmagarwood.com
• MagicNumber5 (Heroku) – http://magicnumber5.herokuapp.com
• Market Delivery Penang
• MeteorJSHTML5ShivCDN – html5shiv for meteorjs – https://github.com/mirageglobe/meteorhtml5shivcdn
• MeteorJSSnapSVGCDN – SnapSVG for meteorjs – https://github.com/mirageglobe/meteorsnapsvgcdn
• Ngee Ann Poly software development – campus digital kiosk
• Oriental Oracle android app – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idqpuwlneqs5byrkfzkc&hl=en_GB
• piperpiperpiper the global remote working tribe – https://piperpiperpiper.com
• QS Scorecard – http://www.topmba.com/scorecard
• QS MBA school profiling platform – http://www.qs.com
• Singapore Rifle Association shooting logo design
• Student Tenant – http://www.studenttenant.com
• up2 (Usage Provenance and Prediction) Framework – (closed source)
• Zenify GetSimple – Get simple lean theme. – https://github.com/mirageglobe/zenifygetsimple
• Zenify RevealJS – opensource presentation toolkit wrapper – https://github.com/mirageglobe/zenifyrevealjs
• Zenify Sinatra – opensource ruby framework wrapper –  https://github.com/mirageglobe/zenifysinatra
• Zenify WordPress – opensource wordpress theme development tool – https://github.com/mirageglobe/zenifywordpress
• Zenify WordPress Child – opensource wordpress sub-theme development tool – https://github.com/mirageglobe/zenifywordpress-child

Selected Projects Screenshots