iPhone
Got an iPhone the other day as I was starting to have a few issues with getting email on my other phone the Sony k850i. The Sony was great, but it seemed to crash quite a lot.
The iPhone is quite simply great it’s so much fun. It still has a few flaws such as no video recording and copy and paste etc. Plus it did crash on me once already but I think that has something to do with the facebook application.
I’m actually writing this entry from my iPhone with the wordpress app. So hopefully you will see more coming here shortly.
I know it’s been a while since my last entry and I’m still using a default theme on my blog. I’ve just been mega busy with work.
Excuses, excuses heh, but now that I can blog on the go, so to speak. I hope to make more of an effort.
According to google analytics, not many people visit me anyway (yet) heh. But I have a few tutorials on php and Ajax lined up so that may change I hope! Plus stay tuned for a new version of harvard ref soon!
HarvardRef.com
Thought I would start today by talking about one of my latest projects. Harvard Ref is a project that I submitted for my major project as a part of my degree. However, the origins of the project start from my initial introduction of harvard referencing back in 2005.
When I first attempted to develop a bibliography, quite simply I was rubbish at it and I would lose marks to poor referencing. The whole concept was strange and pointless to me at the time, but as I developed my writing skills I eventually got to grips with it and appreciated how useful it was. But compiling a bibliography can take time, either by just looking for sources or getting the correct format and information into ones reference.
As a tool to help myself I created a little web form that would help speed up things and then the output created a harvard reference.
The first iteration of harvardref.com can be found here. Very basic, but it did the job at the time. To begin with only a few friends knew about it, as I was very secretive with it, because I was afraid some one might steal my idea. After researching into the subject online though, I found numerous other sites that did the same job. So I had to go back to drawing board and try to think how to make it better.
First Version of Harvard Ref
By the time I did the first ‘alpha’ or ‘beta’ I was entering my 3rd and final year of my degree and needed a concept that would be innovative and creative. My first concept was something dubbed ‘webtop’, which I’ll talk about in another article and may even develop some time in future. In short though, the concept was too large and time consuming that I would never of got it done on time. So I went with Harvard Ref, which received good remarks from fellow classmates, friends and lecturers.
Harvard Ref - Current Version (2008)
link: www.harvardref.com
My method to make Harvard Ref more appealing was to incorporate integration with other web services such as Amazon and develop social networking, plus include interactive features with AJAX.
I’m quite pleased with how it turned out, even though there are various bugs on certain browsers, most of which I hope to fix soon. I’m not going to stop there though, I have a lot more ideas that I want to incorporate into the project that will hopefully make it more appealing and useful.
That’ll do for a brief introduction to Harvard Ref! I’ll post more soon.
Howdy peeps!
I’ve had this site for so many years now and I haven’t done anything with it really. Hopefully that should change as I’ve installed snazy wordpress in the root of the site! With previous blogs I’ve stuck it in a random directory and forgot about it. But now I have it on the main page I hope it will encourage me to blog more.
I personally wanted to develop my own blogging software really, but I’ve been so lazy over the years and never got around to doing it. Plus, Wordpress is simply great and is bursting at the seams with superb features and community. Who knows though, maybe one day I’ll get around to developing my own blogging software.
I suppose I should explain who I am before I go on rant about random stuff. Hello readers! I’m Liam Chapman, but I guess you probably figured that out from the URL. I’ve just finished a three year course at Bournemouth University Media School For Excellence where I studied BA (Hons) Interactive Media Production. I am currently working as a full time Web Developer for a company based in Poole.
Quite simply though, I’m a geek, so you’ll more than likely find my opinions on tech headlines and if your lucky a tutorial or so on coding and design including discussions on the subject. Also, my thesis was on Cloud Computing, which I am strong advocate of. Over the coming months I plan to publish chapters of it and add to it. As I want to research and study it much further.
Like most people, I’m also a huge Tv and Movie fan, so I’ll try post critiques and reviews of things I’ve seen recently. I’ll also talk about random stuff…so I guess my blog will be a sort of public journal, as most blogs are (duh!). But I’m going to attempt to publish something that you will enjoy reading and will more than likely be tailored to a geek audience.
This blog may also evolve into an area for my portfolio and projects that I’m working on. So stay tuned!
Also you may have noticed the fugly wordpress theme at the moment, I’ll try and whip up something soon to make the site more ‘me’. I’ve just found a basic theme via wordpress.org etc. It’s all right and should do for now, but I’ll more than likely adjust it over the next couple of days or start from scratch.
peace and peas people!