September 2011
1 post
Half Marathon Training diary - Story So Far
I’ll be running the Cardiff Half Marathon on 16 October, which is scarily already less than a month away. This reckless enterprise is in support of the Neonatal Unit at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who cared for our son for the first three weeks of his life. It’s a good cause and you should seriously consider <a...
November 2010
1 post
Oh dear.
I have a lot of respect for those of you who work full time, have a young child AND can blog in their spare time. As you can see, my last entry was a very long time ago. Life has changed so much in the intervening time, undoubtedly for the better.
However I did manage to eke out just enough time to write an iPhone app. Look out for NumberRace in the App Store soon!
June 2009
1 post
The time is nearly upon us.
Our first child is due to arrive in less than a week. It’s a very scary but exciting prospect, knowing that our routines and our lives will alter significantly, but not quite knowing the exact moment when.
I hope that I won’t have “embarrassing dad” syndrome. I just have a mental image of myself in ten years’ time complaining of my child’s taste in music,...
May 2009
1 post
When software becomes mainstream.
I’ve taken the plunge and decided to install WordPress for a personal project. I was hoping to use some of the blog-esque plugins found in ModX, but it quickly became apparent that the limited functionality and clunky implementation couldn’t hold a candle to WordPress.
When exploring blog options, WordPress was the one that came instantly to mind. It’s always interesting to see...
March 2009
1 post
Hope you like our new direction.
andrewgraham.co.uk has a shiny new look. The front page is collated from several social networking sites, thus giving the impression of being updated frequently without having to lift a finger on my part.
There’ll be some general tidying up over the next few weeks - be patient while everything is rehoused.
February 2009
1 post
In common with much of the blogosphere, I've...
Well, ‘hate’ is such a strong word. In work I’ve been developing a web-based system of collating Fire Risk Assessments for NHS Wales, and I’ve suddenly found myself more than ever coming across the limitations of IE6. We can’t ditch support for it - some of our corporate applications still rely on IE6 - so don’t even think about exhorting us to update our...
October 2008
3 posts
“‘Me and my grandad are both really happy because it could have damaged our...”
– Metro article on the Brand/Ross controversy, 30 October 2008
Object Oriented Programming is starting to make...
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been familiar with the principles of OOP for a while, through initial forays into the world of Java as well as working briefly on ASP.NET projects. I’ve read so many times those simplistic examples of inheritance, where a Dog is a subclass of an Animal and a Car is a subclass of a Vehicle, and it all seems logical enough.
All these nicely defined object...
I am now a registered iPhone developer.
I’ve already got my first application up and running. It displays “hello, world” on a green background. I think it’s going to set the world on fire!
September 2008
5 posts
Paradoxically, new technology has helped me...
My iPhone and I are pretty inseperable much of the time. Its sleek, simple interface just compels you to pick it up and waste time exploring its various functions. Perhaps that explains the App Store’s popularity - that, and the fact that people are willing to buy applications when the price is right.
Two applications in particular, have enriched my life in the short time they’ve...
Everything is orange nowadays.
Okay, so I think we’re nearly there with atozofweb.com. I need to add a contact form, and there are some places which could be styled a bit better. However the overwhelming issue is the whole orangey-ness of the site. I’ll fix this up shortly.
As you can see, this site is broken.
I’m moving things around, getting a more coherent navigation together, improving the graphics, fixing the CSS. Be patient and everything should fall into place.
If e-mailing works then I'm a happy man.
Because it means that I can send messages from my iPhone.
Some experimentation.
I’m having a play about with my Web 2.0-enabled website atozofweb.com and, while Facebook status updates are all very well as the primary focus of the site, they’re quite limiting really.
And an out-and-out blog is just a non-starter - take a look at andrewgraham.co.uk for a classic example of a mothballed site.
I’m therefore hoping that tumblr will fill my mini-blogging void....
May 2008
1 post
Something new to play with.
It’s ludicrously easy to sign up for this. Hopefully this will make me more inclined to post interesting tidbits. Hmm…