100% Geek The Adventures of Peter Boughton:
CFML; Web Development; Photography.

If you haven't already read Project:Photon - Part I, you should go do so now, as it will give you an introduction and overview into what I am doing here.

In Part II, I'm simply getting everything together, connecting it up, and making sure most things work. This article is essentially just photos, so if you can't see pictures I'm afraid it wont be too exciting. NOTE: This isn't actually the 'build' stage yet - that wont happen before January; I'm too busy at the moment.

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Posted by Peter on 18-December-06 at 22:01 ~ 5 comments ~ Category: projects , photo

Project:Photon is an attempt to build a small and silent device to fulfill two main requirements. The first is for a reliable high-capacity storage device for my photographs and other valuable data, with integrated backup routines to help protect against unintended deletions. The second is for a personal web development server, which will be used for testing websites and hosting personal web applications on my home network.

Whilst it is possible to buy commercial products which allow you to attach hard-drives via a network, and also have an integrated web server, none of the NAS devices on offer managed to work in precisely the way I want. So I figured I'd make my own.

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Posted by Peter on 07-December-06 at 22:12 ~ 11 comments ~ Category: projects , misc , photo , web-dev

There are three very simple reasons to write accessible code:

1. It is the right thing to do;


2. It means you're not breaking the law;


3. It increases your search engine rankings;

Posted by Peter on 07-December-06 at 19:05 ~ 0 comments ~ Category: accessibility , web-dev