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Well, I finally got around to sitting my final cert last week at Taitec, the Site Design Specialist Certification and thankfully am now at the end of the certification course. Whilst I enjoyed the CIW program and found the material pretty easy to follow, for various reasons, most probably a lot of consistent minor gripes for me I doubt I’d follow that particular route again!. All in all though I enjoyed the bulk of the learning and it was a good grounding into Web Development having known very little to start with but I strongly suspect there are far better and more creditable cert providers out there. As I also intend to keep consistent in the learning and broaden some already aquired skills I might indulge with more later to always keep improving my skillset. For now though I’m happy to just study some new materials I recently bought on some server side stuff c/o O’Reilly.
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I wouldn’t normally blog non tech related stuff on my blog but I decided this year I’d get involved with the Movember campaign to raise funds and awareness of Testicular & Prostate Cancer. I was going to do it last year but for one reason or another didn’t. Yup, serious business is cancer so I’m doing my bit!. I’ve done the usual stuff over the years, the parachute jump (did that 2 years ago), runs, walks, silences, swims (doing one in the summer hopefully in Salford (British Gas sponsored)) and pretty much the normal sort of stuff but figured as this is pretty effortless and ultimately going to make me look extremely silly (wouldn’t have it any other way) I’ll have a go!. It’s serious business and a worthy cause and I’ve nothing better to do than look dafter than usual for the short time of 30 days.

If you want to contribute you can here on my page and and I’d be greatly appreciative!. More information is available here also, as to what it’s all about and how it originated etc. I’d also like to know your thoughts on how I should style the handsome beast I’ll be sporting in 30 days!!. I’m also really interested in opinions and experiences, so please feel free to leave those below.

Like many people with an Android phone, in my case the older non HD HTC Desire, we subscribed to the maker as it’s without a doubt a good product (so much so Google bought it). It’s an alternative to the usual iPhone, it’s Open Source, cheaper and very soon will be equally, if not more popular than the iPhone. Currently, Android market has in excess of 300,000 apps which is increasing all the time. When I switched I liked the open source aspect of the OS. Its ability to sync my other Google accounts fairly dynamically in addition was a great bonus. I also liked the fact it’s customiseable in that the dev community can contribute to it’s ongoing overall development through apps with an open SDK (something apple doesn’t have which is still being improved on). Promises of access to the Bootloader should be coming soon. And of course, Android Market is far more user friendly than that horrid, stand alone app iTunes which requires a download.
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Well, I finally got around to sitting my JavaScript Specialist Certification last month, with Taitec testers in Manchester and here’s the proof!. I’d done quite a bit of work and sweating for the exam (bearing in mind all the way, the strict retest policy my course has within it’s conditions) and thankfully, the work paid off. Otherwise, I’d have been undoubtedly hit with retest fees. I’m now learning Perl programming (One of the 3 P’s, Python, Perl & PHP), which is interesting me. continue reading…

We all know the benefits of online shopping. Most of use this method time after time. Today, it’s secure and can be very safe thanks to varying technologies and systems the internet employs including HTTPS (explained better later) and various levels of encryption during payment which protects us and makes the whole process pretty effortless. There isn’t anything really continue reading…

A few weeks ago I commented on Twitter and Facebook about how I was unfortunate enough to have my iPhone fully submerged in a swimming pool – long story but I was thrown in at a party during drunken antics!. I also read a similiar post of someone else as unfortunate. As a result, I thought the phone was lost. It was saturated after all and refused initially to switch on at all (I know I shouldn’t have attempted that straightaway) but hey you live and learn. continue reading…