About Me

Based in Kent but commuting to London, I work as a web developer for a small digital agency in Southwark. I also occasionally do freelance work and enjoy making stuff for the web. Other interests include electronics and software development using C and Java.

Away from the phosphorus-coloured glowing dots, I get a kick out of flying lessons and I’m currently working my way towards achieving a private pilots license. Although when firmly on the ground, another love of mine is amateur photography.

About Vivid Reflection

I enjoy making stuff that pulses and blips through circuit boards... Whether it’s a smart new website or a camera module for a remote controlled plane... it soon became clear I needed a place to house my designs and help me to nurture new ideas. A place where I could feature my work and ultimately experiment!

So why Vivid Reflection?

A website can say a lot about you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a huge multi-conglomerate company or an individual working from a laptop in Starbucks... it’s essentially your online persona and your website reflects who you are.

It was also important for me to create a website that other people would find useful. There are so many blogs that are simply about people’s views and opinions and I wanted to give something back that was rich and vivid in content. So when I was thinking up a name for my website, Vivid Reflection seemed like a natural choice.

The Technology

Being a software developer at heart, naturally I didn't want to use WordPress or any other of-the-shelf blogging software like most designers seem to do these days. Instead I’ve decided to create my own solution and have hand-coded Vivid Reflection from scratch... down to every last line of code (well, except the odd AJAX library I’ve used). Unlike most developers, I’ve created the Vivid Reflection dusty red and midnight blue themes myself using some Illustrator and Photoshop magic too.

The finely crafted code is written in PHP 5 using TextMate and I’ve used a beefy MySQL 5 database for the back-end. Also, I’ve tried my hardest to make sure all the code is 100% pure valid XHTML and the CSS looks the same in all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari). The pages should also print nicely and there’s an RSS feed for you to aggregate as well. Enjoy.

Please feel free to have a look at my web portfolio and browse some of the blog entries. If you have any questions, proposals or just fancy a chat, get in touch!