Website Changes and Settling In

As of today I have implemented a fresher look for my website. I have re-worked the menu system, and I have now included my ma.gnolia bookmarks too.

On the other side of things, I am settling into Stafford again. I'm now almost a week into my final year, doing a Final Year Project, Design Patterns, Algorithmics and Advanced Programming Language Concepts modules.

Amazon is going to love my business for books now.

On a side note, I have some rave flyers on eBay (in my latest bid to free up some space!). Place a bid if you fancy.

Ciao for now!

Roll on third year

As you may or may not know. I am a student at Staffordshire University. As of yesterday I have moved back up to Stafford and will be looking forward to getting back into the Assignments/Essays/Exams lifestyle.

I will carry on web designing/developing during my third year. This will help with experience and knowledge within the web designing/development field.

It was great to see the gang again after being away on placement. Many of my friends went abroad too last year on placement, mainly in Germany.

I will miss Switzerland, as I worked for a fantastic Agri-Business and met my wonderful girlfriend there. I will always miss the snowboarding, but hopefully my financial future will be kind enough to me to allow me to go back. I also got to meet Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd last year too (they came over to give some usability training and a DOM Scripting/AJAX workshop).

I will miss the guys and girls I lived with the most, so here is a shout out to Nicola, Matt, Mark, Stijn, Jimbo, Dave, Radha and Michelle.

Rather than dwell on how much I miss last year, I will instead look forward to this next year with an open mind and with lots of optimism. Third year at Uni.... bring it on!

Feed Me... or just too much information

Mini Feeds are now available on Facebook. Every person now has a mini-feed on their respective profile, which shows status updates, additions of photos by your friends etc. Great idea, but I feel it may be giving outside people too much information about whats going on in the magical world of you.

Do I really need to know when John Smith last fed his fish? Do I really care if someone removed a tag of me from a photo? I do care when poeple claiming to be your friend (of whom which you have not accepted the friendship request), have access to everything thats going on. Of course you can restrict access to your Mini-Feed in your public profile, but unconfirmed friendship requests still see your restricted access profile until you give them the boot.

Major access flaw? Or is "what they could have seen"?

I for one am deciding whether there is any value in the Mini-Feed. We'll see...

Re-write in Asp.net 2.0

My site has been re-written in asp.net 2.0, meaning faster loading times and less coding (for the basics at least).

I have been grabbing the master page concept, after finally installing Visual Studio 2005. It has taken me this long to install it as I have had to put up with Visual Studio.net 2003 whilst working in Switzerland.

Luckily most of the code ported over fine, but I had to change all of my System.Web.Mail stuff to System.Net.Mail, which actually makes it easier. I also owe thanks to this site for some great help.

Anyways, expect my portfolio to grow soon, as I have a few projects which I should be getting on with!