About Me

Hello, first and foremost, thanks for heading to my web site

This is a place where I publish my thoughts on anything that takes my fancy. For the moment that includes a multitude of geeky thoughts, web development, conferences and running the Fairtrade t-shirt site Fair & Bare. I also operate as a freelance developer under the name Nifty Digits which I release each of my own projects under the umbrella of. I’m based in Cardiff and back in 2007 I started the group Cardiff Geeks as a means of meeting other wonderful developers and interesting people – which I have!

For 4 years of my life, I worked on my PhD at Cardiff University, before finally passing my viva in 2009. Probably the most valuable skills I learnt whilst doing so were about myself, rather than anything written in my final thesis.

Currently I’m working at Aardman Features upon their web based asset management system for the film Pirates!

I’m skilled in PHP, MySQL, Java and Javascript. More recently I play in the php web framework lithium, CouchDB and node.js. I also dabble Python when I get the chance.

2 Responses to About Me

  1. Phil Garrow says:

    Hi:

    I have just installed your Wishlist WordPress plugin and it is not retrieving my list.

    I have input my information as instructed:

    Locale: I have tried both com and .com
    Wishlist ID: 1DD9UPGMBTHER
    Amazon Web Services ID: My long AWS Access Key ID
    Amazon Secret Access Key: My even longer AWS Secret Access Key
    Amazon Associate ID: abausu-20

    And the error message that I get is the same: Wasn’t able to find any items using those settings.

    I would appreciate any help you could offer getting this working.

    Thanks, Phil

  2. Ian says:

    Hi Phil,

    Take a look at the lowdown on the wishlist page on my site. I’m afraid it no longer works as wishlists can’t be looked up in the Amazon API any more.

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