A sort of a beginning

I spent this afternoon helping someone who may become my first post-newview client, which was a bit exciting and a little bit daunting. I was able to fix the problems that they were having and I've now been invited to put in a bid for a much larger piece of work. On one hand it makes me feel that I can do this, on the other the whole thing suddenly becomes more real and somehow more intimidating. It's also my first major bit of PHP work, which is good for my CV - PHP is a popular language for smaller-scale web work and although I know how to use it it was one of the only languages we didn't really deal with at Newview. Once you have done as much web programming as I have the actual language you are using makes surprisingly little difference because it's just a question of matching slightly different terminology to the same process. Looking at the existing code on the site I think I am possibly already a better PHP programmer than the original author, who appears to have been someone who likes their code to be complicated.

I now have my own portfolio site at benmoxon.info - don't feel compelled to look at it, but if you do decide to, make sure you take a look at the "Jam Slam" game as that one is pretty entertaining.