About Me

I live in South London, England and work mostly in and around London.

What I do

I build Web Sites, talk about Web Development and Design practices. I've worked in various different capacities, but mostly as Senior Web Developer

The majority of my time working in IT has been focused on front end web development. These days: ASP.Net (Web forms and MVC), Javascript (AJAX), XML, XSLT, CSS and obviously HTML are my everyday tools and most of the sites and applications I have worked on have been backed by a SQL server database or two and more recenlty in an SOA environment.

Although my experience is primarily Microsoft focused on the server side this does not mean that I'm not a keen practitioner of open source environments and software including different Javascript frameworks including jQuery and ExtJS.

How I like to work

When I'm freelancing I work on fixed price contracts and on daily rate contracts and have done for several years. I'm happy to consult or get my hands dirty and prefer to working in agile, creative environments.

I'd like to work with some of the leading talent in the UK to produce creative, well designed web sites and applications.

Blog

Currently My Blog resides on Wordpress and gets updated when I get the chance. You can find the following articles there currently ...

• My iPhone 4, a step in the wrong direction?

  My iPhone 4, I bought it on the 24th of June, the first day it was available, O2 made purchasing it a real challenge (not Apple, surprisingly). Queueing up, I felt almost embarrassed to be there. Although I was entitled an upgrade from my iPhone 3g there wasn't any real urgency to purchase other than the condition my girlfriend describes as 'being an iSheep'. ... It's annoying to have the content to write this post about my new phone and I'd also hope that I'm not damaging a brand that I stil buy into.

• Triumph Garage

  Triumph Garage, originally uploaded by errumm. So I’ve started taking a few photos and setup my flickr account to send entries to my blog. This is an HDR image I took this evening at Sanderstead Train Station, of the Triumph Garage opposite. 3 exposures iso100 f/18 I think.

• Bruises, scars and getting home

  I’m off home. I should never have been told that my catheter would be coming out as soon as this week, apparently. The fact that I got “retention” means that it’s possible I’d need a cathater again, if I had another operation as an emergency and because of the trauma they don’t want to have [...]

• Home? And who decides

  Firstly, thanks to anyone who has contacted me about the posts I’ve been making the last few days! It’s a little bit embarrasing, I kind of assumed no one I knew would read any of this and was writing it to break the boredom, help me mentally and hope it would be useful to anyone [...]

• Lew Lew skip to my loo, kind of.

  It’s incredible really, the difference a few hours make. Yesterday morning I was feeling ok, with a lot of the feeling having returned to my legs, groin and backside. The biggest problem I’ve been having is the cathater I’m having to drag around! This thing is no fun and if I hadn’t lost most of [...]

• Heros at St Georges

  So here I am again! Writing from my hospital bed in St Georges. I’ve never been the type to want to write a diary but this has started to feel something like it. The 24 hours I write about here will probably go down as one of the most traumatic days of my life. This [...]

• The NHS, the great and not so good.

  I’ve had the op and all seemed to go well, very well infact. The consultants were great and the anethsatists and the nurses and I have to give a special mention to Ethel in the recovery room in mkissock ward in st georges hospital, tooting. She was kind, considerate but most importantly she seemed excellent [...]

• Brickin’ it a little!

  So, true to form things are starting to break! The pay tv which, that I mentioned in my previous post, that I spent £15 on last night (ironically for freeview channels) seems to have completely stopped working. Again it’s not abig deal, but like having my own room, I’d rather not have had it in [...]

• First night in hospital

  So here I am laying in my hospital bed pre operation. I feel surprisingly positive. Given that I’m less than 14 hours away from an operation I’ve been pretty worried about for a while. Luckily for me, the consultant reassured me that he is almost certain that the lump in my spine that’s been causing [...]

• My impending Laminectomy to remove the lump in my spine!

  After a couple more appointments, a snowboarding holiday and around 6 weeks I find myself awaiting a laminectomy for a potential neurofibroma (they won't know for certain until it's removed and a biopsy has been performed) in two days. As far as I'm aware the likelihood of this being cancerous is minimal, but apparently it is rare either way. I don't feel particularly privileged though, a lottery win would have been a little more appreciated!