I'm a twenty-year old Computer Science student at the University of Warwick. I'm especially interested in Web programming and Web startups. Currently, my favourite procrastination tools are Proggit and Hacker News.
I have some experience with:
In the near future, I would like to learn:
A news aggregator similar to Reddit or Hacker News, but focused on British university students building web startups. Built on the Slinkset platform, it was featured on TechCrunch Europe.
A browser-based multiplayer online game, written in Ruby (originally PHP) with MySQL. An experiment in a more dynamic, player-driven online world, Shintolin is set in the stone age and currently has just under 600 active players.
Whatever you want to learn, Nohao recommends the best resources for your skill level. The site is still in a very basic form, as I'm following the lean startup philosophy of building a mimumum viable product and adding new features based on user feedback.
Related to Nohao, but focused on recommending course textbooks to university students.
A youth hostel in Chengdu, China. In exchange for redesigning their wesite, they gave me a month's free stay. The new site includes a basic CMS (news, customer reviews, prices, etc). Written in PHP; since I couldn't use a database, CMS functionality was acheived by reading and writing to flat files.
Coursework for the 1st Year Professional Skills module.
To raise money for the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, I walked over 200 miles from my home in North Wales to London.
Endurance Humanitarian Aid is a distaster relief agency I am involved with. The above is a logo I designed for them; you can see it in use here.
A map I made comparing the provinces of China with countries of equivalent populations. It appeared on the StrangeMaps weblog.