http://graemepirie.com Aspiring Web Designer and Developer Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:14:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apologies for the lack of updates recently, I've let it slide a bit too much for my liking. Whilst I've been away I've been busy learning new things both at University and at home. Whilst at University I've been continuing to use C# in programming which I've got to say is ... http://graemepirie.com/another-wee-update/ As can be seen in my sidebar, I have a twitter account and usually send several "tweets" each day. When I first started using Twitter I had much less followers and wasn't following as many people as I am now, and I was happy with that as I was still ... http://graemepirie.com/twitter-overkill/ Well I'm now into my fourth week here in Dundee, and I suppose now would be a good time to document the experience and my thoughts so far on University life. I've now almost had three weeks of teaching and overall things are going well so far I think with all ... http://graemepirie.com/university-life-so-far/ Yesterday I visited the local Software Freedom Day event here in Dundee, and I was impressed with what was available. I think that the whole web industry is moving towards open source software, and went along to see what things were on offer. We all know that the biggest and ... http://graemepirie.com/software-freedom-day/ It is now over seven years since the 6th version of Microsoft's Web Browser was launched, and it is still popular today for some reason, although this is mainly with large organisations and some education centres. With the recent release of Firefox 3 it is plain to see how far ... http://graemepirie.com/internet-explorer-6/ Well as promised a few weeks ago, I have completed the new design of the site. It is a bit different from the previous "working desk" design, but I hope that you like it. There will no doubt be a few tweaks still to do, and as we all know ... http://graemepirie.com/new-design/ Now, there has probably been thousands of blog posts about Twitter, with the majority of them concentrating on the frequent downtimes that Twitter suffers. There's even been the odd blessay on the subject, such as the ones by Elliot Jay Stocks. Now you're probably expecting me to launch into a rant ... http://graemepirie.com/twitter/ Well I attended only my second ever Open Coffee event on Tuesday at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds, and it was something that I enjoyed actually. For people who don't know, Open Coffee is an informal meeting of geeks from the local area who get together regularly to chat and ... http://graemepirie.com/open-coffee/ Well the time has come for a site re-design I feel. Although the site was only launced in May, I feel that with my impending return to Scotland to start my degree at Abertay University that it is time to re-design the site before I start my course. I still like ... http://graemepirie.com/site-re-design/ In a follow up to my previous post about reference materials, I'm on the lookout for a PHP reference that will teach me the basics of this server side language. It is undoubtedly one of the most popular languages today and as such I feel it is important to swot ... http://graemepirie.com/learning-php/