I couldn’t defer it any longer, so its time I held my annual C.V. update. This year, I’ve been doing more web-agency work with Head London, working on a grocery website, a classroom presentation tool and a celebrity competitions website. I also worked on the redesign of the TouchLocal website and its sister project…

I’m pleased to say that my dear old Grandmother has started to use the Internet on her laptop, in particular to use Skype to keep in touch. I take for granted what a technological leap this must be. When she was born, the fastest you could go was 60mph on a train, now there…

You know when your brain is just not co-operating when you type ls into the mysql client console.

Not strictly a tech post, but I made some back-of-a-fag-packet calculations on how many seats parties would have won in yesterday’s election had their vote had some form of proportional representation. I simply took their percentage share of the vote, as reported by the BBC, and multiplied it by 650.

I’m currently bug-fixing on a Rails project, and encountered the need to convert the default UTC date-formats into local times, seeing as we’re enjoying our extra hour in our glorious British summer time. The documentation is a little confusing on this point, but I found that a good solution is to keep UTC for…