Jul
2nd
Wed
2nd
panorama pool
tom is a student of architecture, web developer, casual game programmer and amateur photographer with a passion for electronic music from sheffield, england.
Jun
22nd
Sun
22nd
Off
Heading off to Spain for a week, when i get back i will be officially homeless. Hopefully will have some form of internet again within the next month..
Bye!
Jun
21st
Sat
21st
Pagination
Just playing around with implmenting search results on the new website, i really liked the idea of creating an endless page in the style of Google Reader as i am not a fan of chunks of results..
Having looked into it there seems to be some disagreement as to whether the average user ‘gets it’ or even likes it… now i don’t know if to just do the standard page numbers or something more exciting -decisions, decisions!
Jun
19th
Thu
19th
CakePHP’s documentation is infuriatingly hard to use.. if i could figure out why i would help them fix it (being open source and all) but i really don’t know - it just seems that everything takes 30minutes to find the answer to.
Despite this, the framework rules.. I have gone from idea in my head to functional website with upload and search functions in 2 days. Of course there is still months of design and fine tuning to do, but meh.. 2 days!
Jun
18th
Wed
18th
Prize Draw & Refresh
Today we launched a new prize draw on StudentSay to try and encourage some of the browsers to submit reviews to the site… For every 500 genuine accommodation reviews that the site receives we will…
Jun
11th
Wed
11th
Its All Done
Finished university last week and had the exhibition this evening - its all done!
Got a bunch of projects to work on over the coming months including; a big update and competition on StudentSay, development of flashracer with Jon and hopefully backend work on the new site i registered last month. I will be posting updates on all here.
May
31st
Sat
31st
New Site
Just registered a domain name for a site i want to develop before the end of the year - hopefully i’ll find some time anyway! They wanted more than the cost of the domain to make the whois contact details private so i just changed all of them to ‘Anon’ hope it doesn’t come back to bite me…
Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.
May
29th
Thu
29th
A Great Month
Studentsay has had a great month, reviews have been coming in every day and pageviews are steadily rising - making the site increasingly useful for you guys to find the right accommodation! We have…