phillw
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I'm Phill (as if you couldn't guess) Age 43, UK Resident.
My computer History .. When we did computer studies at school, we wrote out flow-charts & wrote our code onto a programming sheet to be input onto a 'mini-main-frame' - We got dot matrix output & a roll of punched tape. Learning Flow-Charting is a gr8 thing, as it allows me to break tasks down into 'bite-size' chunks. 1st Computer Atari 640XL, It taught me assembly language, along with machine code - For that I'm grateful. I had a Bulletin board running on that little 8 Bit machine, and even stuffed 256KB of RAM into it. - Yeah, go ahead, do the maths, we were inventive - it was paging memory, like expanded memory on the 1st PC's
I've forgotten more than I knew - I used to be a good 'script kiddie' in linux and BASIC.
I've been upto 2nd level IT support in an UNIX environment - I recall being really shocked when 'X' 1st came out as the GUI for it !!
My current interests are coding web-sites (LAMP) - I'm no graphic designer - just stubborn on writing 'tight' code.
I'm on nodding terms with PHP (You could live to be 200 and not fully understand the power of PHP) I'm okay with MySQL. 4 dimensional arrays in SQL took a bit of getting used to !!
I write my XHTML code to STRICT, by hand using BlueFish on my Ubuntu operating system. I am interested in rule508 compliance and also the regulations for the UK.The Web Accessibilty Initiative is a great source for this. My musing s on Rule508 and Web Accessibilty are over at http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=14 (Which is my 'baby' forum)
I am active on the Ubuntu forum, helping out where I can (As one of the members on CodeCall stated -- it really IS like trying to herd cats!!) And as an admin on VPOLink (http://vpolink.com) forum, which is a general forum, upon which I have a tech area, which is where my HowTo's live (I have a writing style that doesn't lend them to official Wiki Pages - To Formal for my style of 'us' and 'we')
I get onto CodeCall (http://codecall.net) when I can (Usually when I'm stuck with a coding problem !)
I've enjoyed getting my teeth into a function of MySQL, oft over looked - FULLTEXT, and have written a full set of tutorials on what I have learned along the way. I've sorta got it working like a google search would respond, including the use of + and - for those who want use it.
I will try to help anyone with questions - When I cannot answer it myself, I'm "'very'" good at google (I learned a lot writing the MySQL search stuff for my Dads' Site)
My base site is http://phillw.net I'll get around to tidying it up some day. The site currently being built is at http://mgjuddltd.co.uk (That's got the abiltiy to switch the the debug on, as it is part of a series of tutorials I wrote with help from the likes of bobince).
The easiest way to email me is phillw@phillw.net
It has been known for me to be in IM with someone for 4+ hours if they're stuck doing partitioning etc.
My Tech area on VPOLink is at http://www.vpolink.com/forums/22-PhillW-s-Tech-Talk
Well, that's me !!
Regards,
Phill.