Hello World,
So I do micro blogging, social networking and once attempted to update my own personal blog. One day I'll go back to updating my personal blog, but what I really wanted to do, which I guess was one of the points of having a personal blog in the first place was to create somewhere to write down absolutely anything I learn with technology.
I don't just mean I want to write that I learnt how to wire the Sky box to the TV, although to some that is a dark art in itself, I mean, well, let me explain a bit from the start....
I am currently working as a "Lead developer" for www.beam.tv - essentially this role is a cross between a scrum master and a "senior" LAMP developer (and general dogs body - but that's not for this blog); the LAMP role strongly hinges on the "P" aspect, and this is where this blog starts to come in. Throughout my (7 year career - the last 2 at beam, 4.5 at www.cardifpinnacle.com and about 6 months at flyingbrands) I've used technologies that have always leant on opensource - and most of the source of that has come from the community, from blogs, from stackoverflow, from forums, mailing lists, etc. the latter few are people posting problems and some helpful people answering them. I thought it's about time that I start to post the helpful stuff.
So along with my PHP knowledge, I do know my way around the LA and M part of the stack as well. I'm not claming to be a super sys admin or anything, but I know enough to set up my own VPS with Apache, Bind, sendmail, MySql, etc. and again, most of that knowledge was farmed from the web.
I want this blog to become, if nothing else, a reference point for me, to look back and go "that's how I did that", because already I'm forgetting how I did things I did a few years ago. Some things you read you'll go "durr, that's so simple" but it's only simple if you know it. I want this to range from complex design patterns to stuff that I read that looks cool to one liners on the shelll that make your life simple!
So here goes, hopefully I'll keep this up to date. Maybe if there is enough information on here, one day I'll be able to collate it into something sensible.
James.
