Book Review – Magento Beginners Guide
First impressions
Upon receiving my copy of the Magento Beginners Guide I took a moment after dinner whilst my girlfriend watched some ‘Celebrity Increase My Profile’ program to absorb the first chapter. I was presented with a nice introduction explaining the scope of the book and the conventions that are used throughout. A nice and easy ‘in’ perfectly suited to reading on the couch. … more
Future Of Web Design 2009 – FOWD
As I was gutted to miss FOWD in 2008, I decided to make a point of not missing it this year. So I put my name down on the ‘early bird’ list along with @robking too as I was sure he’d be up for it.
Really looking forward to Brett Welch talk about marketing for start-ups and Mark Boulton on design and frontend goodness. I’ve seen Drew McLellan and Elliot Jay Stocks before at Oxford Geek Nights and thought … more
New job title ‘handyman’
Over the last few months it’s become apparent that I enjoy doing a wide variety of different things. This is not new news to me, it’s just that I’ve come to the conclusion that this is what I should be doing – a bit of everything -.
Variety is the spice of life, or so I’ve been told. After building the fencing with my neighbour, the spring weather finally arriving, continuing to develop my ecommerce shop Bytemart, my decision to start … more
BarCamp Bournemouth
This weekend, the 4th and 5th April I’m going to BarCamp Bournemouth along with @stunami and @colinmacd. It’s a BarCamp event being held in the university campus, organised by @markng, @tepanga and @adammills.
Last year I attended BathCamp which was … more
Lots and lots of photos
Photography is something that fascinates me and intrigues me. So when I decided to organise the product photography for Bytemart Limited I had not really grasped the concept of how much effort it was going to take.
First of all I put together a ‘lightbox’ to use as the environment to take the photos, this required some mounting board and a roll of white paper and … more
