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I am now in a permanent role at Mosaic in Brighton and I am not looking for employment opportunities. Just a short note to give you more detail on my return to the United Kingdom in December 2008. I will be landing just before Christmas and be ready for a new role with an exciting company in the new year. A quick run down about me follows: UK citizen so I can work for anyone Zend Certified PHP Engineer UK and Australian industry experience Worked with clients such as: the Virgin Group of companies Volkswagen (VW) Nickelodeon Merlin Entertainments Group (London Eye, Thorpe Park, etc. Read more ⇒
I have been travelling around Europe for the last month or so and I have been completely out of reach. [STRIKEOUT:Unfortunately it looks as though the solution I had implemented for code highlighting has died during this time,][FIXED] [STRIKEOUT:but I have also noticed that it is stripping backslashes which is affecting the code – especially the MS SQL import script I have supplied on one of my posts][FIXED]. It contains references to newline characters etc (n), which have been destroyed by the Wordpress plug in I am using called Sniplets. Read more ⇒
Marion and I were wed with a lovely ceremony on the 26th of July at the Brighton Pavilion in Brighton, England. We are now travelling around western Europe and enjoying every moment of it even if we had to slum it in a Hilton in Innsbruck! ;-) In other news I have now left my job at Wickedweb in Edenbridge, Kent and I will be moving to Auckland, New Zealand in October. Read more ⇒
Say you have a development environment setup using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and your customer has a SQL Server 2000 database accessible only via ODBC and you can only run a DB import via a script. How would you do it? Easy you might think just run msdbdump.exe on the command line, well this isn’t MySQL so you are not so fortunate. Backing up your DB is easy with SQL Server using the following commands: Read more ⇒
I recently asked my girlfriend for her hand in marriage; she said yes! We are both very excited and have begun to make arrangements. No date has been set yet but we aim to walk down the aisle before the end of the year. As we are from different countries we have decided to hold a ceremony in each of our countries and England to involve all of our friends and family. Read more ⇒
I have been a little slow to update my website of late due to a change of jobs and having recently moved house. I am now working for WickedWeb (and have been since July), which is a web agency in the Kent countryside and with an office in London (Covent Garden). I am based in the Edenbridge office where I am a web developer working mainly in PHP with some ASP maintenance. Read more ⇒
I am now based in London and I am working for a company called underwired* based near Farringdon train station. A few observations: The trains are slow, late, expensive and overcrowded Carrying a skateboard around town appears to be frowned upon The roads are rubbish, but entertaining on a motorbike They speak weirdly and sometimes smell funny ;-) Read more ⇒
As some of you will know I have finished uni and now work as php developer for Go4 Multimedia and as such I am currently between houses and I do not have regular access to the net where I am staying. Read more ⇒