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Recent Blog Posts
My AppleCare Experience
It's actually quite difficult to believe that my MacBook is 18 months old now. About a month ago, I noticed that mounting DVDs became...Posted on 04/07/2008 at 19:01 by Peter.
1 comment.WPGet 0.8 Released
I've just pushed out a new version of WPGet, to fix an issue with its category support that has been there for quite some time.
For...Posted on 22/06/2008 at 12:18 by Peter.
0 comments.Almost the End of Another Era
To follow up, I'm now done with all of my coursework, and therefore pretty much done with the whole Further Education experience as...Posted on 21/06/2008 at 20:02 by Peter.
0 comments.WordPress integration powered by WPGet by Peter Upfold.
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Portfolio
The easiest way to get to know me and my abilities is to look through a sample of my work.
Web Development
Here's a selection of my web development work.
- Creator of WPGet, a small project written in PHP that eases the integration of WordPress blogs with non-WP powered sites. WPGet is a free/open source project under the GPL and the source code is available from its project page. WPGet came joint third in the September 2006 PHP Classes Innovation Award.
- Creator of SleekTabs, a script written in PHP to assist web developers, designers and people putting together their own websites to implement simple yet powerful Ajax-based tabbed interfaces. SleekTabs is free/open source under a BSD-style licence. SleekTabs recently won the April 2007 PHP Classes Innovation Award.
- Developer for Livelocity. Livelocity was a project aimed at creating a website where independent musicians could sell their work, DRM free. Unfortuantely due to unforeseen issues involving the DMCA, the Livelocity project did not come to fruition.
- Currently working on a web development project in PHP/MySQL of which the details are confidential. More information will be available in the coming weeks.
Miscellaneous
- This website is run from my spare PC running the Linux-based CentOS operating system. I am solely responsible for the day-to-day system administration of the server and making sure the system stays running smoothly and securely.
Writing
I currently regularly maintain and contribute to several blogs on technology. As well as my personal blog here, I also am the main contributor to FOSSwire, a blog about free and open source software which features tutorials,
In my regular blogging both on FOSSwire and elsewhere, I have written a range of tutorials on various different technology-related subjects. Some examples of my tutorial work follow:
- Making your own OpenSearch plugins
- Scheduling tasks with cron
- Ubuntu tip - get Mplayer and play everything
- Giving Linux for a spin the first time - Part 3
- Screencast - getting Firefox 2.0 yourself on Linux
Of course, that is just a small selection. Feel free to browse the FOSSwire archives and have a look at my tutorials here.
If you are interested in getting in contact with me, please head on over to the contact page.
