What’s been going on recently? – well quite a bit really. I’m now settled into my new job at Consumer Focus Labs. We’ve spent a few weeks getting our systems set up (not as easy a task as we’d have liked), our development environment in place and courting ideas from anyone and everyone. [...]

I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer. During this time I’ve seen significant changes in the way the internet works, from new technologies and new standards in design, to new ways of [...]

Last week I was busy trying to put together a new design website design for an important client at work.  As always, we were on a very tight deadline and it had to be completed the end of the next day.  I’d left work early so I could concentrate on the design without being distracted [...]

Selene M. Bowlby, a web designer and developer who has recently taken the jump into full time freelance work has just posted a blog entry with 60+ essential feeds for freelance web designers. She made the post in response to an open thread on Freelance Folder asking “How Do You Stay Sharp?”.
As a web developer, [...]

I’ve been very quiet for the last 6/7 weeks.  Everything has been a bit crazy at work – lots to do, lots already done, but not much to show for all the effort!
Over the last few months we’ve been busy working on several new websites, a fair number of which have now been handed to [...]

After 4 years of lectures, coursework, projects, dissertations and exams, its finally time for me to enter the real world.  My time at Swansea University has come to an end.
Just over a week ago I was given the result of all this hard work - a Master of Engineering in Computing with Upper Second Class [...]

The last time I posted a proper update on this blog it was June. Since that’s quite a long time I thought I’d post a little bit about what I’ve been up to since then before resuming some sense of normality.
So, here is a quick – and completely uninteresting – update:
July
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Its my last few days in Swansea.  Dad is coming up tonight and tomorrow to take all my stuff home.  I’m then spending Friday morning cleaning the flat and hand the keys back to the accommodation office.  This year seems to have gone quicker than the last two, but its also been the busiest.  It [...]

As part of the major upgrades we put into place on the Waterfront website two weeks ago (link), we submitted the website for inclusion on the Google News index. For those that don’t know, Google News scans news websites from across the world and aggregates them into one system. This is a fantastic [...]

Yup, yet again I’ve failed to keep my blog up to date. To be totally honest, there hasn’t really been anything particularly interesting happening that’s been worth a blog post.
Work is continuing on Project Metis – expect a detailed blog post on this in the next week or so where I will formally introduce [...]