The blog has been out of action for a few months now as I have been working on a new blogging system and site design. Both of these are still a work in progress but I hope to have them up soon.
I have been very busy recently working freelance in house for Nzime Design Consultants in Nottingham over the summer months. My main role was PHP/MySQL programming, spending much of the time building a system for them to handle all of their jobs, quotes, clients and passwords (securely). Building this system was a good excuse for my to get to grips with OOP (Object Oriented Programming). This new found knowledge has too me away from procedural code for life, I don’t know how I ever lived without OOPHP.
I am now back at good old university and into my final year. The workload is mounting extremely fast. With a Showcase project, Dissertation and 4 other units to get grades in the social life is going to have to be put on hold and all the games removed from the hard drive. Well apart from Counter-Strike, it would take more than a high workload to remove that.
For my final showcase project I am going to be building an e-Commerce system which I plan to have finished for December. It will be built in OOPHP/MySQL with use on AJAX in areas of the admin to increase usability.
The dissertation is also well underway, which is going to be on “Accessibility on the web in small to medium enterprises”. The reason I chose this topic is that Accessibility and Usability is something I have a passion for and believe should be took into account on every website.
On other developments spending the summer in a design studio working on Apple Mac OSX I have decided that I want to remove myself from the claws of Microsoft and move to Apples Leopard which is due for release later this month. If a 24” shiny new iMac doesn’t tempt you to make the move nothing will.