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18 Jan 2008
at 6:40am

Book Review: The Explanation of Taekwondo Poomsae
I've just received a new book from the States about Kukki-Taekwondo (WTF-style) Poomsae and after giving it a quick once over thought I'd put my opinion on 'paper' (so to speak).

3 Jan 2008
at 3:04pm

Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence
For Christmas I got an excellent book about basically mining and predicting information. It has sections on how search engines work, bayes-based spam filtering and optimizing solutions (amongst other things).

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I am a web developer creating sites for a number of clients through my company NextGen Development Ltd using PHP5 and MySQL. Recently I've been using/recommending the Symfony framework as it's an excellent solution for building websites that are robust and have a high level of functionality in a short timeframe.

I've been developing web applications since about 1996 (initially in Perl, then using PHP since 1999) for clients such as OXO, Fortnum & Mason and IPC Media Ltd. I've worked on over 400 sites over this period and am currently focusing most of my energy on a few important clients: IPC Media Ltd, Mansized and Pocket-Lint.

In my spare time I am a Kukki-Taekwondo 3rd Dan black belt, father to two young children and a husband to my darling wife. Then again, what is this spare time thing...?