About Me

Hello there - I'm Peter Upfold. I am an 18-year-old student, independent web developer and blogger.

I live in North Hampshire in the South of England and I'm currently studying for the second and final year of my BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (Software Development) at my local college.

I am fiercely passionate about technology and have been since I can remember. My particular interests lie in Unix-like operating systems (including Linux and Mac OS X), web development and other programming, but I enjoy dabbling in all sorts of technology and the issues surrounding it.

If you are looking for some of my free software, you can probably find it either on the Projects page or on my PHP Classes page.

Want to get in contact? Feel free to use any of the methods listed on the contact page.

Me on the web

I'm involved in quite a bit online, including some interesting projects and ventures.

• I currently write articles, tutorials and reviews on free software/open source technology blog FOSSwire (which I co-founded in October 2006).
  FOSSwire has over 1,450 subscribers through RSS and email and had over 140,000 absolute unique visitors in September 2007.
• I have a few open source web development projects and have also been involved in other freelance PHP/MySQL work in the past.
• I run my own web server from home which has delivered this page you're viewing to you! The server is Linux-based and I am completely responsible for its administration and management.