BarCamp Bournemouth

April 3, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Personal, Travel · Comment 

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 Read more

Lots and lots of photos

March 9, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Magento · Comment 

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 Read more

Spending time in relaxing surroundings

March 6, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Networking, Personal · Comment 

Today was the first of our ‘Lounge Fridays’. Ben and I spent the day working together at The Wellington Inn.

The Wellington Inn

The Wellington Inn

A great finish to the week mainly spend hauled up in the office taking product photographs for the new Bytemart website.

Figures and Prep

February 7, 2009 · Posted in Freelance · Comment 

This month I will mostly be catching up with myself, things that have been left to one side while I concentrated on the contract working for Alniro.

One top priority on my list was to concentrate on my business accounts to ensure that my tax return was completed properly and my future accountancy records are kept in an orderly fashion. Up steps FreeAgent a magnificent online application for all freelance and contractor accountancy needs.

I have been featured on FreeAgent’s User Testimonial page

sfImageTransformPlugin – released

October 15, 2008 · Posted in Configuration, Freelance, Installation, Networking, Plugins, Symfony · 1 Comment 

Stuart Lowes has released sfImageTransformPlugin 0.1.0 for Symfony. This plugin is for manipulating images using the GD or ImageMagick libraries.

A simple to use and flexible image manipulation symfony plugin. The plugin allows you to perform “transforms” on an image. A transform maybe simple like a resizing or mirroring or more complex Read more

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