Future Of Web Design 2009 – FOWD

April 29, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Personal, Travel · Comment 

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’

April 22, 2009 · Posted in Freelance, Personal · Comment 

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

Problems accessing admin after upgrading to Magento 1.3.0

April 16, 2009 · Posted in Configuration, Installation, Magento · 3 Comments 

Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0.  This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in the admin and tested … more

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 … more

A day at the races – Radio Control Car style

March 15, 2009 · Posted in RC Cars · Comment 

Seeing as today was such a great day, I decided to head down to Yateley Model Car Club after saying good bye to my Aunt and Cousins from yesterdays birthday party.

The sun was shining and I had the whole afternoon available as Ellie was up the yard, riding out on Lilly. I took the short drive over to Yateley School about 12:00 and found … more

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