It’s been a long long time
Yes it has been a very long time since I posted here and this will probably be the last on this blog before it is retired and archived. The WordPress System has served me well, but alas it is time to move onto greener pastures. Over the summer, through autumn and certainly into winter, I have been very busy working on Polaris Digital 2.0, the next generation. It isn’t a massive site, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in functionality. The new blog (now named a ‘journal’) will be an integral part of this new site, but the buck doesn’t stop there…
As well as the journal, I will be integrating heavily with my digital persona’s on Facebook, Last.fm, Flickr and the ever-popular Twitter. In the future I will also add other services such as Upcoming, del.icio.us and Pownce. All of the site will be using POSH, Unobtrusive Ajax, CSS 2.1 and Microformats throughout or where applicable. All server transactions will be REST(ful) and it will all be coded using PHP (not Ruby on Rails as previously stated). So this will be a fully web 2.0 experience (what ever that really is!) and will be polished off with a new brand.
So that is what is coming. But what has been happening? Well as you may have guessed from the image at the top of this post, we’re now in London - East Dulwich to be precise. After two and a half happy years in Manchester it is time to move onwards and upwards and in the immortal words of Joe Strummer, “London’s Calling”. Apart from a slightly warmer climate, it doesn’t feel much different at the moment. I am sad that Manchester is now part of our past, but I look back fondly on our time there and I will be returning one more time this year for the GeekUp annual christmas dinner.
Meanwhile I have been busy in the work world too. A long and tiresome small claim battle is currently underway with a former client who just would not pay, needless to say that they have now been dropped. But greener pastures arrived simultaneously with several new projects, one for a marketing company called CDMS. The web site is a holding site for the new web site which I will start development on in Janaury 2008 if all goes to plan. But the holding site offers a little more than most, with Unobtrusive Ajax serving up contact details with embedded Microformats, plus some fancy jQuery action, nice! I am also working on a massive e-commerce project as well, but I can’t talk about that just yet.
So that’s it for now and that’s it for this blog. The next time I speak out it will be from the new web site sometime in the new year. Christmas in London is going to be fun and a trip through St Pancras international in the New Year is also on the cards. Much more about that and everything else next year on a new journal. But for now, this is me signing off once and for all. Good bye 2007, thanks for reading.
26.Nov.07 
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