About me
My name is Matthew Pollard I am a web developer based in Bournemouth in the UK . I like to think of myself as a client side developer although I know stuff about server side things as well. I have been web developing for quite some time - the earliest browser version I developed with was version 2 of Netscape.
At that time I wasn’t bothered about validating my HTML and I thought opening a popup window with JavaScript was cool. I’d like to think I have learnt a bit since then. The closest I had come to OOPs was in Lingo bouncing a ball around the screen which I had copied from somewhere.
Now I try and write semantic, well structured HTML or XHTML using CSS. I use JavaScript to travel through the DOM and add new bits to the page at will (well almost). I almost completely understand OOPs.
I know a bit of PHP and a bit of SQL too - can just about find my way round a command prompt on Linux and I am trying to create a media/file server using a mini-itx mother board with a large hard drive.
This blog is a place where I put ideas that I have come across that I think will help other people like me. I am not a programmer I have had no formal programming education so if something doesn’t make sense or is totally wrong leave a comment.
I have another blog too - this is where a put ideas that don’t generally relate to web development or computers but are more about the rest of my life and my efforts to be greener!
