Looking for my next challenge...
After a 3 year 'recharge break' from my main career in IT & Web development I'm looking at returning for some more technical challenges.
I never really stopped the web development work, I just stopped taking new work on. Instead I focussed on a new business, some new skills and a bit of fun, while maintaining some selected existing clients, and learning a few new tricks. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't pull myself away from the lure of computers and new products. I simply LOVE playing with, evaluating, and making best use of new technology.
So now it's back to the job search sites and looking for some challenging IT work again.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 October 2008 13:59
My lovely Zef is up for sale
Monday, 08 September 2008 14:06
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I've decided to put my 1996 Kawasaki Zephyr 750 up for sale in order to fund the purchase of my 'dream' bike. She's got 72,000km's on the clock, and is in very good condition. I've owned the bike for about 18months, and in that time, it's only done between 3,000 and 4,000 km's. It also has a Ventura Rack.
Last Updated on Saturday, 25 October 2008 11:17
JoomPing component for Joomla 1.5 (Now available)
I briefly mentioned Ping.fm in my previous blog entry, but this site caught my interest, and I've been spending some time working on a Joomla 1.5 package that integrates Ping.fm updates with a joomla site.
Basically, Ping.fm can send your message to a whole stack of social networking sites such as Twitter, Plurk (my personal fave), Tumble, Pownce, Facebook etc. They also have the ability to send the message to a Custom URL. It's utilising this CustomURL that gave me the idea of writing a component that will receive your status messages from Ping.fm, so that even those who don't subscribe to any social networking sites can see what you've been up to.
(Image grabbed from the Ping.fm blog, hope you don't mind guys!)
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:35
With a Tweet Tweet here, a Blog Blog there, here a Plurk, there a Pownce, everybody Facebook!
Social Networking getting you down? Finding it hard to keep up with all those 'imaginary' or virtual friends? Well here's another one to add to the list. Plurk. Plurk has taken a different approach to Twitter, by displaying messages on a timeline. I won't go into too much detail here, you can either head on over to the Plurk website for a look see, OR, you can click the Plurk Icon in the 'Stalk me on' module on the left hand side of this page.
Which leads me on to 'Stalker'. That's it there, on the left, my very first Joomla module. For all the details on this plug-in, have a look at the Joomla Modules page.
Last Updated on Sunday, 20 July 2008 11:49
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Kitchen and other updates
We've been flat out here since my last post.
The kitchen has FINALLY been done (will put up some photos later), although we just need to paint now. Once finances are a bit better, we'll get that done. Hopefully it'll be before mum's next visit!! The extension is on hold for now though, at least until we can afford it!
Last Updated on Saturday, 25 October 2008 11:08
Updates coming...
Thursday, 07 February 2008 23:09
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 Having just spent the night converting the site over to joomla 1.5 (YES! ANOTHER new backend... so that's been about 5 iterations of my site in just about as many years!), I'm now too tired to add any new articles, so I'll add them over the next few days (in between work and pulling a kitchen out!)
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:28
MacBook Pro finally arrives
Friday, 07 September 2007 21:25
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 Well after a NINE week wait, my new MacBook Pro finally arrived yesterday. WOW!! These new laptops are amazing!! Big, but amazing. I've got the 17" widescreen model, and the screen is just huge. Beautiful! Talk about clever... it almost took my breath away when I turned the main light off in the lounge, and the MacBook automatically lit up the keyboad and dimmed the screen for me. Yup, it's smart too.
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 July 2008 17:31
A new adition to the Z family!
 We now have a new addition to the family. To join me (Zolt) and Zef (the bike), is Zorro. Zorro is a 12 week old Husky (cross Blue Cattle) pup! He's a lovely little fella, with a great temperament. We're going through the training thing at the moment... fun & games & patience!!
Last Updated on Thursday, 07 February 2008 23:07
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