Web Stuff

My internet efforts so far...

I've not been doing this long. It all started a few years ago while I was working as a customer services manager at the ill fated DOL (RIP), when I got interested in the web site we were provided with. I was impressed and suddenly I started coding my personal web site. Starting with Dreamweaver MX2004 and some internet tutorials, I created some very ugly designs with many tables.

Since then I have been learning religiously and found PHP and suddenly I was creating dynamic websites. I was lucky enough to get a job with Electric Avenue Computers as a web designer, and learnt a lot form my new colleagues Marcus C and Andy Souter. I have moved on from Dreamweaver and now code exclusively in EditPad Pro, an awesome program by Jan Goyvaerts.

After Electric Avenue, I was extremely fortunate that Gyro International decided to employee me in the role of web author in Chelsea, and I'm loving it. I'm still learning a lot, but it'll all fall into place soon and I'll hopefully be an accomplished programmer in a variety of languages.

Worldwide web grafitti.

The worldwide web.

W3C news

World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards

  • Call for Review: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Proposed Recommendation
    2008-09-04: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and XHTML2 Working Group have published the Proposed Recommendation of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. The modern Web is made up of an enormous number of documents that have been created using HTML. These documents contain significant amounts of structured data, which is largely unavailable to tools and applications. When publishers can express this data more completely, and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality becomes available, letting users transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. RDFa is a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The group has published an implementation report as part of the Candidate Recommendation phase. Comments are welcome through 03 October. Learn more about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
  • Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts First Public Draft
    2008-09-03: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts. EXI defines a new representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set. The introduction of such a format may cause disruption in systems that have so far been able to assume XML as the only representation of XML Information Set data. This document reviews areas where the introduction of EXI may disrupt or otherwise have an impact on existing XML technologies, XML processors, and applications. It also describes EXI design features and steps that may be taken by implementors to reduce or eliminate disruption and impacts. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)
  • W3C Talks in September
    2008-09-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)