Big Andy's Blog

Friday the Thirteenth

ahudson — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:01:19 +0000

A quick post at the end of a very busy week of work. I am getting my head around SVN and the workings of life as a developer. I’m looking forward to learning more and increasing my skillset. I am reading a book about Accessability “Building Accessible Websites” in the evenings and beginning to pick up some jQuery too. The more you know the better a developer you are. So I’ve been told!

Writing from w.bloggar

ahudson — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:44:49 +0000

While I listen to the latest podcast from The Big Web Show (a weekly show about different topics related to the web, hosted by Zeldman and Dan Benjamin) I try out a new tool for blogging.

w.bloggar

I used to use w.bloggar a very long time ago when I was first getting into the blogging game. That was a long time before WordPress’ in-browser compose post function was usable. Now going back I can see that w.bloggar is still a great way of composing posts, there is no distraction and you actually feel that you are sitting at the type-writer and composing “serious content”.

Thursday Training

ahudson — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:48:33 +0000

This morning before work I went for my first run in 6 weeks. And I feel really great for having done it. Twenty minutes and the route was my normal “River Loop”.

Wednesday Stress

ahudson — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:51:41 +0000

What began as a simple entry to life as a developer has quickly descended into a life with ten thousand different strands each taking up all of my time resources and abilities.

I’m a beginner and have not done the vast number of things that they’re asking me to do before. Yes I’ll get quicker when I have mastered how to do it all, but for now I am very stressed.

Tuesday Fuckup

ahudson — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:49:13 +0000

I thought that I would be playing badminton right now. Instead I am at home typing into my computer. That’s a bad swap and it happened because of a mix-up with my friend Rob (my fault).

Anyway now I am at home and doing some typing. Typing is good for the soul I think, and the more you type the easier it becomes. In my last job I was continually brain deprived (i.e. by monotonous boring brain numbing work) so my ability to type sentences withered and almost died away. That’s why I am trying to write in this blog more. To bring back my brain from the abyss.

Monday and Knackered

ahudson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:58:57 +0000

Every time I open up the “New Post” section of my blog admin and wait for the words to come to my fingers. The space to write is so large (I have a 23″ monitor and it spans the entire width of the page) that I am always put off. So I now will try other methods to put down my words.

Method 1
is QuickPress the in-built window on the main page of wordpress’ admin section. Room for 4 lines of text at a time, no more, and breadth and space for lines of words and sentences to form quickly without the distractions of an empty page of whiteness.

Final Day Chemist

ahudson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:38:53 +0000

Today marks the end of my career as a chemist, something that I have been working and studying for 13 years (since the start of my A-levels in 1997).
Its been a long windy road with lots of fantastic moments meeting loads of great wonderful people, I think that now is the time for different more exciting and interesting challenges.

Now I must cycle to the lab and one last time I will put on my white lab coat safety specs and mad scientist voice… and then on Monday I will be free to follow my heart and take my first step as a Front-End Web Developer.

Coffee break

ahudson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:20:19 +0000

This morning not feeling very well I had to skip brekki so that I arrived at 10 o’clock absolutely starving and in need of energy and some coffee. Also as I feel that this blog is in great need of artwork and photography I took a photo of the new book “It’s only a
Movie” by Mark Kermode I started last night.

Big News #2 {new job}

ahudson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:59:55 +0000

Just under two weeks separate the end of my Chemistry career and the beginning of my new career in web development. I have a job as Front End Web Developer for Heath Wallace starting on August 2nd based here in Reading, UK.

I am hugely excited about the change, something that I have been working hard to achieve over the last two years with my web design course, reading books, writing code, learning and continuously studying hard.

Big News #1 {marriage}

ahudson — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:19:52 +0000

I have some really fantastic news to share with you. Marion and I are going to get married. I proposed at the top of Glastonbury Tor on our 3-year anniversary which was one month ago. We’re both really happy and are starting to think of places in France where we can get married. It’ll be somewhere next to the sea, either the Med (where Marion grew up) or the Atlantic (where her parents live now).