So I got a job working for a local web development company called 2bebrave, they’re a fairly new company and I make the numbers up to 3. We do all the usual stuff; design, hosting, programming, SEO and so on, I would of course highly recommend our services. Our offices are at the Create Centre, where to rent office space the company needs to have certain green/environmental/ethical credentials, so the atmosphere there is pretty cosy and laid back, which is nice.

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Through the Prince’s Trust I have been assigned a mentor to help me with my business, his name is Jimi Ogunnusi, managing director of BQM Consulting. He’s a very nice man and I feel really privileged to be able to share time with him. After our first meeting he suggested I write down my future expectations, for 12 months time and 5 years time, so for the benefit of posterity here’s what I’ve said;

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A few months ago I got involved with the Prince’s Trust. I’ve been hearing about them for years from various sources, then one day I visited their website, just to find a bit more about them, and the next thing I knew I was being showered with help and support with my business!

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A PHP library that I think more people should know about is SC Chen’s Simple HTML DOM Parser.

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Well a site that has caught my interest recently in terms of design is Skype’s. Of course, I’m in to simplicity, web standards and whatnot and I think Skype’s website is a great example of modern technical standards integrated with a cool contemporary design.

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I have designed a very simple PHP templating system called Simplate, you can download it from here. Instructions on how to use it are contained within the Readme.txt file.

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CSS Rounded Corners — Using only one image file!

There are lots of tutorials on this subject, yet most of the one’s you see require the use of four separate images, which means a lot of fiddly photoshop work; cutting, pasting, naming and saving — all times four.

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I am just about to release the second (and hopefully stable) version of a little project I’ve been doing in Puppy Linux. It has been a complicated and fascinating project, and one that has taught me an awful lot about Puppy Linux, but it has also taught me a lot about Linux, Microsoft and computers in general. So seeing as this feels a bit of a watershed in my computing adventures it seems a good opportunity to look back and try and gather my thoughts on what Puppy has meant for me.

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Okay, so lets go back to the beginning. Even the spear and the wheel were groundbreaking inventions at some point! Sometimes it seems like computers are magic but it’s really just lots of little bits coming together — little bits that are no different in functionality to wheels and spears.

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Relatively speaking computers have only been around for a very short while - and the internet even more so. Yet the differences they have made to our lives has been radical and unprecedented. For something to effect such change in such a short space of time makes one wonder where it will all lead?

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