About this site.

I’m a Mac developer living in London. Anything else I can say is superfluous.

I used to blog at Stompy.org but I hardly posted there; it never felt like my own place. That’s why I’ve moved here with a new name and theme.

This is going to be a personal site as well as a developer blog, but I’ll try to categorise carefully so they two should play together nicely. I don’t want to move in to an empty site, so I’ve brought over some of the latest posts to keep me company.

This is the first site I’ve written in a very long time. (I say ‘written’, I just designed and developed the theme.) The last one had a midi tune in the background, which is an indication of how long ago that was, rather than my taste in design. I’m not a web designer, so this was as hard as I expected it to be.

Two sites particularly inspired me: One by Alex Payne which has a clean look and I particularly liked his masthead - so I stole it. The other is Nik Fletcher’s site; also, clean looking, but I liked the way he used his avatar with the buttons underneath - so I stole that too.

At version 0.6 I’m still not completely happy with it, but it’s good enough for dog food I’ve tested this on Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Sadly, not IE. It’s not that I don’t care (well, okay, it is that I don’t care) but I don’t have a Windows machine to run it on.

Git

I’m a big fan of the git version control system. I’ve got some tips for using it in this site but to motivate myself, I’m posting a git nugget a day over at 365git.

Colophon

This site is powered by Wordpress. The theme was created on a Mac using TextMate, CSSEdit, and Coda (particularly useful because of it’s FTP and CSS editing capabilities.)

I’m using the Social Media Icons by Paul Robert Lloyd and the RSS feed icons from bittbox.com.