thispageonthe.net

Well, here’s another site I’ve been working on and thinking about for a long time. The first domain name I ever bought now has a new face along with my release of past mixes.

At present, I’ve released two mixes, but there are a good few more to come, over the coming weeks, or months. Have a look and let me know what you think, djgarner.co.uk

It has recently occurred to me how lazy people are! Now, I know I’m a complete lazy twat, if not the most laziest twat you could meet, but it really takes the piss when someone suggests to you (almost how to do your job), something that they would like doing.

It comes as no surprise that the request is from the IT (teaching) department, who, apart from some, seem to know absolutely jack shit about what they’re teaching! O.k., so there is some arrogance in my tone, mainly taken from the fact that, they know their way and couldn’t care less about any other way (which more often than not is a damn site better and more efficient!).

So what is it that has been requested? A coursework submissions system that will allow students to submit their work via email (which everyone knows can be spoofed!) to a “secure area” which is only accessible by the teaching staff. The suggestion has been made “based on an idea produced whilst working at a previous company” that also implemented it in a Lotus Notes environment. It was also said that “given a couple of months, we could create something similar“. Now, pardon me for saying but the “WE” doesn’t involve anyone who teaches IT, but rather myself and manager.

Something has obviously gone wrong somewhere for this job to have been pointed in my direction as this is technically a job for the “Integrated Learning Technologists“, but the buck stops there because we have BlackBoard!

Hands up if you would like to give me a job working for you. I will bring the munkeh if you like, he is however optional.

It was felt that there aren’t enough members of the team I work in so two new members have graced us with their presence. My assistant is gracefully perched upon my Cobalt RaQ 3 development servers.

Looking for a new job. I’m currently working at York College under the title of “Web, Messaging and Collaboration Support Assistant”. A mouthful, I of all people know and incidentally the longest title within the College.

The role involves assisting in the administration of the College email and database system with a Lotus Notes/Domino environment; covering such things as email account creation, creation of database systems, and the inevetable, resetting user passwords after the summer holidays.

Recently though, I’ve deviated somewhat (probably fairer to say quite alot), from my employed job role. I am one of three people employed at the College who know how to code systems using the PHP scripting language and where required attach these systems to a MySQL backend. I find myself developing more and more systems that I have as requests with PHP than in the Lotus environment.

As a result, I’m looking for a role where my talents will actually be exploited/skills put to good use. I had an interview with a company in York last week, at which I was a little unnerved as the role is working in .NET. I have done some simple stand-alone .NET coding (ask user to complete two form fields, then question WMI before dumping the results to an XML file and uploading them to a server for further processing), but never for the web. It’s something to look forward to getting my hands into if I get to second interview and further, otherwise, I think I’ll be sticking to LAMP.

If anyone needs a LAMP developer to join their team or to code a site or anything really, as long as you’re not looking for a designer, let me know. I’ll more than likely be interested.