Welcome to my little place on the web.

I'm a software developer and occasionally when time allows, I like to blog about my various coding project here. I also like to tinker with home automation, retro gaming and more.

I have also shared some of my software, which I hope may be of use to others. It's on my software page.

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Now supporting image uploads!

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So, I was about to make an entry regarding my home automation setup using HouseBot software, but realised it would look a lot prettier if I could include a photo. So I have spent a few hours enhancing the site to allow image uploads to my admin pages. There is a great article over at w3schools here :
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

But from today my site will become a lot nicer looking, and here’s a picture to prove it :)

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I think my wife is tr... read more

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Hello and welcome to my first post!

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This site will be a bit of a ‘work in progress’. Coming from a .net background, I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn something outside my comfort zone of asp.net and T-SQL. So with this in mind, this site has been developed from scratch using PHP and MySQL.

So far, this has gone fairly smoothly. It feels very similar to how I used to develop in classic asp many years ago. Although frustrating at times, it’s nice having the full control over the code for a simple site like this. I find when I build larger web applications in ASP.net the IDE takes over some of the granular details that I like to ... read more

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