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Hello and welcome to my personal website! I’m a software developer based in South Wales, UK and I aim to post the odd useful ‘blog post’ to this website, as well as give some information on projects and websites I have worked on over the years.

I started making websites when I was 10 or 11 years old, initially using Microsoft FrontPage before teaching myself HTML, PHP, Javascript and CSS (etc) and ‘hand coding’ my websites instead.

I then learnt Java in University and I currently work commercially as a ‘server side’ software developer (i.e. writing backend software). I’ve had quite a lot of experience over the years with the Spring framework (working with web apps, REST APIs and microservices), although I’m currently working with telecoms software (working with software based SIP solutions).

Some side projects that I have worked on over the years includes:

• 2001 - 2009: Tau Online
• 2007 - 2009: A beta tester for the PHP/MySQL message board software Simple Machines Forum
• 2009 - 2010: Devoted Hosting, a shared and reseller hosting service I created (and later sold).
• 2013 - 2015: Plagiarism Guard
• 2018 - present: a few informational websites, along with some small Github projects including a Neo4j cypher query formatter.

Feel free to email me at: .

Blog-style posts

• Oct 8, 2019 - Cutting Down On Plastic-Based Waste After Having A Baby
• Dec 12, 2018 - Some Handy Jekyll Snippets (updated Nov 23, 2019)
• Dec 23, 2017 - Java 8 Spring Cloud Scalable Microservice Demo on Github (updated Mar 23, 2018)
• Dec 21, 2017 - Plagiarism Guard source code on Github (updated Jun 23, 2019)
• Dec 20, 2017 - Update to Lightweight jQuery Lightbox - For jQuery V3
• Oct 10, 2014 - Lightweight jQuery Image Lightbox Script
• Oct 5, 2014 - How To: Add A Django RSS Feed Reader
• Oct 1, 2014 - How To: Setup a Server and Deploy Django Python 3 App From Scratch