scrumpyjack

So it's a fine new year. I have set myself some ambitious challenges for 2010. Let's compare notes and help each other out...

I absolutely love coding in PHP. Sometimes I get distracted by the glitz and glamour of some of the more popular languages (and their associated frameworks) - and I agree, they have their place. But PHP is in a class of its own.

Last month I proposed an article for NetTuts. And today it got published . Please have a look. Even tweet about it! Go on...

APIs and connecting web applications together is going to be the next challenge of the evolution of the web. The next decade should see easier-to-implement, yet more secure methods for connecting the various web applications that we use.

UPDATE: We're opening it up to a greater audience. So even if you're not tech/web related, feel free to come along anyway. Yesterday whilst I was in the office (also known as The Vortex), I was reading my Twitter stream — as I so often do — and I came across this tweet from @bostinbloke .

I met three ace guys yesterday: Sean Leigh , Jeremy Harding and Alan Mann. They are all techy/web entrepreneurs and are making big bucks out of big ideas. They know some crazy people in the domaining field. It turns out that there a lot of wealthy people doing domaining. I found out yesterday that there are some people out there that own thousands of domains with no websites attached to them! Craziness! They obviously have a lot of money. The reason I met these great guys though is because they found me and this brings me to a little tip: Get your name out there! It turns out they found me through a service I signed up for and hardly use, Elance. The data from Elance was probably shared on a network of other services, which they stumbled across. My profile on this service is sketchy at best. But it was enough of a lead for them to do more digging. Because I'm an active participant on a number of blogs, forums, Twitter etc. they managed to fill in the gaps pretty quick. So...