Welcome to my blog. I’m a software engineer based in in the UK. I live in St. Albans, Hertfordshire and work in Hemel Hempstead.
I’ve been interested in computers since primary school, when I used to copy BBC BASIC games from books (Towers of Hanoi FTW!). I studied computing at A level & computer science in university. I’m always tinkering with code, and when I’m not writing it, I’m probably reading about it.
I started programming in BASIC at school, quickly moving to Visual Basic, and then Delphi (I wrote Q3Tweak in 1998). In University I studied Java. I’d toyed with my own websites since I was 17 using HTML, CSS and Javascript. I never used server side languages (Perl and PHP) until my first job. This prompted me to switch from being a web designer to a web developer.
In my spare time I continue to improve this blog. I have feed integration to add, making this blog more of a ‘life stream’ (Flickr, Delicious, Twitter and Github feeds), a decent search to plumb in, comment sign in via OAuth (Facebook connect, Twitter, Google) BrowserID and a few other bells and whistles.
When I’m not using a computer I like to head outdoors with my camera, though I’m a casual holiday photographer of late (boo!), check out my Flickr stream.
My wife likes to eat out a lot, so I review the restaurants we eat at on Trip Advisor.
“the more I learn, the less I know”
What are you talking about?!
This is loosely analogous to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Simply put, as your knowledge of a domain increases, most likely so does your appreciation for the breadth of the domain. Therefore your acquired knowledge feels diluted as a result.