Quick update
Written on 12-Nov-2009 | General Stuff | No Comments
I know I haven’t updated the blog or portfolio in a while, this is due to the quantity of work that has flooded in over the last 4 months, and the new job I started in September. I have a list of sites ready to be added to the portfolio, hopefully the Christmas period will give me a chance to update the site content. I will also be looking at giving the website design a complete overhaul in the new year so watch this space.
The vanishing server
Written on 12-Nov-2009 | General Stuff | No Comments
Hello all, you may or may not have noticed but for the last week or so my website has been offline. This was due to the fact my hosting provider (4sites), without any warning, decided to switch off the server and ceased to exist, which was nice of them. The worst part about this was that I hadn’t backed up my website in a while and I had no way of getting access to my files or the database… that is until the lovely people at Rackspace contacted me and gave me 7 days access to the server, as they knew 4sites where not going to bother with me or the many others that had hosted with 4sites, so a big thank you to Rackspace. Luckily I have had my eye on Media temple for the last few months for hosting, so have decided to give them a go, hopefully (fingers crossed) they wont be disappearing without warning in the near future, and it will be better to be with a reputable company.
Key point of this post, don’t host your website with 4sites!
Networking with Twitter
Written on 2-Apr-2009 | General Stuff | No Comments
Recently I have read in .Net magazine and various other blogs about twitter, in fact since around November 2008 I kept hearing the word twitter mentioned all over the place. When I first heard about Twitter I didn’t see the point of it, but after reading more about it, I thought I have to try this to see what all the fuss was about.
After signing up for a twitter account and having a play around with it, I quickly realized the potential benefits of using twitter, it allows you to be in contact with people without hassling them with emails, nudges, pointless quizzes etc.., so it makes a great tool for networking. As well as this, it’s not invasive of your personal life (unlike facebook), it’s an extremely simple idea (you follow me and I will follow you), and extremely easy to use and integrate elsewhere. I have also read it’s great for SEO as well.
So if you want to follow me on Twitter then go to twitter.com/keefster.