Port Eighty Eight Blog Launches

Friday, March 7. 2008

Hi, and welcome to the new Port Eighty Eight blog! In the coming weeks you will be seeing a number of new posts covering general aspects of web development as well as my thoughts on being self employed in the IT industry. If you have any thoughts or suggestions please post a comment at the bottom of the page and I will be sure to get back to you!

Fireworks I chose the name Port Eighty Eight as I want this blog to be a little ‘alternative’ to the other offerings out there[1]. I am planning to cover the more advanced aspects of web development, but I am happy to take requests for any areas you would like to hear me discuss. I am also going to be looking for other developers who would be interested in contributing to this blog, as I would like to avoid it becoming too PHP-focused.

To kick things off I thought I would give you a quick overview of my background. I have been working as a web developer for nearly 10 years, a journey which has taken me from thinking “isn’t this <hr> tag cool!” on my Geocities account, all the way to managing sites which take millions of impressions per day. Needless to say I have learnt (and forgotten!) a fair amount along the way, and it is these experiences I would like to write about. My skills are reasonably focused around LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development environments, but I hope to cover more than just programming topics.

So watch this space...

[1] And, of course, because the domain was available!

Posted by Adam Charnock at 02:51 | Comments (4) | Trackback (1)

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pls m8, make the default font in the articles bigger

#1 Georgi on 2008-03-29 18:21 (Reply)

Hi Georgi,

Thanks for pointing this out - I guess it looks a little different for me. Can you tell me what OS/Browser you are using?

Either way, I will have a look at the font sizes ASAP, which will probably be when I get back home (out seeing a client atm).

Adam

#2 Adam Charnock (Homepage) on 2008-04-01 08:36 (Reply)

It would be good to have a Contact section. I'm interested to find out if you have certain skills (Amazon cloud computing, to be precise) but had no way of contacting you!

#2.1 Jon Goldhill on 2008-07-02 16:24 (Reply)

i'd be interested in contributing to this blog. check out my current site if you want to see some of my php and other development/design blogging style.

#3 boogie (Homepage) on 2008-05-19 18:27 (Reply)

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