OK, so its been some time since my last post on website redevelopment! I put this down to Dawn of War, Team Fortress 2… and general life ‘busyness’

in terms of a new site I’ve decided to take a quite backend heavy approach and look into tapping into a host of APIs such as Flickr, del.ico.us etc for the purposes of image galleries, favourite links type sections. Although i’ve heard, from a variety of sources, that this can be slower (both in terms of dev and user access to pages) than simply building a quick database of items to pull lists (images, links etc) out of. I’m hoping it will be an excellent learning opportunity.

I’m also dithering over whether to take the plunge and change my personal site to asp.NET (after working with it commercially for the majority of my post university experience) or stick with maintaining my PHP knowledge..

…more updates to come.. hopefully on my progress with the above.. as usual its a desperate situation of balancing social life, work life and ‘non-work work life’

employed work life has been dominating my web related activities for pretty much the last year so I shall be attempting to find time for this!