Danns.co.uk

I'm looking for a job at the moment. If anyone's interested in hiring a software engineer well-versed in open-source technologies, please get in touch (CV attached).

In the meantime, I've let this website lapse somewhat. Drupal is an impressive piece of kit, but I like to tinker, and with Drupal that means tinkering in PHP, which I'm not fond of. The plan is to build a new website using Ruby on Rails, once I have time to devote to it.

So here it is, the big 0-9!

We got back from Morocco a couple of days ago and whilst there we decided it would be a good thing to do more blog posts. So here goes - my official second post!

We had a great time in Morocco seeing the family, eating good food and generally relaxing. We were sorry to go, but I for one had really been missing our little ratties. We stepped off the plane in England to a lovely sunny day at an impressive 7 degrees. It didn't last. The rest of the week has been freezing and hovering around the 0 degrees mark. :( Read more…

I propose we put disagreements of Commonwealth vs American English spelling well and truly to bed by adopting completely different spellings altogether. I always read "color" as "koh-law", whereas I'm sure many Americans would read "colour" as "kol-hour".

I propose: CULOUGH

We could also have "initialeyes" and "centa".

Google appear to be running a Treasure Hunt (for geeks). I was interested in the Prime Numbers Challenge. It's different every time, but it looks something like this: Read more…

The "Logos Hope" is Operation Mobilisation’s newest and biggest ship. A new picture is made available every month on the Logos Hope Website. Read more…

Not wanting to pass up the opportunity to help anyone on Planet KDE, I'm posting a link as requested in this blog post. Good luck Kyle!

Abalastow Compendium

I'm so unbelievably sick of the current state of document processors. Don't get me wrong -- I love that OpenOffice.org is doing so well, but everyone knows it's a Microsoft Office clone. KOffice at least is breaking the mould and doing things a little differently, but basically they all use the same WYSIWYG design. Ask any web designer, application programmer etc... and they will all tell you of the importance of separating content from style, or model from view. Why are things so different in the world of document editing? Read more…

It was my birthday a little under a month ago, and Sophie really nailed a surprise gift. We'd been talking about getting pet rats for a while. It's been a wish of mine for many a year, but whenever we talked about getting some we always resigned ourselves to not being able to afford a large enough cage etc... Read more…

This is brilliant! Sent in via the "Contact" form: Read more…

Hi. I dont think that this is an acceptable thing to do stealing my surname which is danns i tryed to get this website but was astonished to find that it had been stolen which is fraud. could you not have just used your own name paul dann. Thank you please get back to me soon.

Now that I come to use my git-attic script a little more (see previous post), I realise that the original work flow was a little clunky: Read more…