phillw
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I'm Phill (as if you couldn't guess) Age 47, 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 UNIX 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 interests are coding web-sites (LAMP) - I'm no graphic designer - just stubborn on writing 'tight' code.
I'm on nodding terms with PHP and fairly conversant with MySQL.
I write my XHTML code to STRICT, by hand using BlueFish on my Ubuntu LAMP.
I am active on the Ubuntu forum, helping out where I can.
I'm running 10.04 alpha, having now switched over to it as my main OS to enable me to run it in a 'day to day' method (Lots of backups). I've now installed xchat onto the 10.04 system, so I will be in #Ubuntu-Beginners IRC area more often.
As I have long been interested in web accessibilty I'm also starting to get a bit more involved with the accessibilty area of Ubuntu. My musings on Rule508 and Web Accessibilty are over at Rule508etc (Which is my 'baby' forum)
I'm also help out on VPOLink which is a general forum.
I'm enjoying getting my teeth into a function of MySQL, oft over looked - FULLTEXT, and am writing a set of tutorials on what I have learned along the way. Head over to MySQLStuff for where I'm up to.
The easiest way to email me is phillw@phillw.net
http://phillw.net is where my various projects have links from.
I've written a few tutorials for VPOLink. But also used to write notes for my own reference, so, I thought I'd share them. They're here PhillW'sTechTalk (As the 'baby' forum is also a test area, I keep a mirror over Here )
Well, that's me !!
Regards,
Phill.