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Moving to Malta

I moved to Malta. This is overall an incredible thing and either really stupid or utterly brilliant. I do love the Rock and all it has: history, ancient culture, sun, unpretentious good life, relaxedness. Downsides, yes there a re a few. Traffic is very bad at rush hour, buses can be very full, and it’s a lazy lifestyle so I...

Stone Island

Qawra coastline is barren, bleak and awesomely rocky. Malta is known as The Rock, and this is why. No shells here, they are all crushed long before they get to the beach, but fossils decorate every rock surface, testimony to the ageless prehistory of this place. These images were taken mid June 2015, when the wind was still up a...

18/02/2015

Elearning Matrix New Site

I’ve launched the first prototype of the new Elearning Matrix, a greenfield full rebuild of the earlier xhtml eMatrix, developed from 2020-2013. The new version has moved on quite a bit and uses a number of more advanced web development techniques as well as being html5 and fully responsive. Based on ExpressionEngine 2.9.2, I’m now using the Content Elements add...

DigiClass

I’ve done some interesting work for a London based inner city charity developing a curriculum for age 12-16 yr after school classes, teaching digital skills that would lead on to accredited learning, using an approach of a ‘Level 0’ syllabus construction. The system of accreditation is based on what is provided by the British Computer Society, using a mixture of...

JOYnd

JOYnd was an idea with some concept for a ‘GPS enabled’ employability network, aimed at any person new to the job market who has marketable skills. This might be graduates, but it might also be the new entrepreneur schools or tech short-school attenders. It was at a pretty raw stage but I believe potential exists within the loose concept. Main...

New Site

It’s been really good working on the new site for Penworks.net as I’ve managed to put into practice a lot of new techniques that I’ve been waiting to learn and then use for quite a while. New skills learned recently which I’m either using or will be using very soon for this project are SCSS (previously known as Sass, though...

Reporting Live

Reporting Live: The State of Today is a new project. I’m aggregating a number of feed sources to automate the generation of an OPML which I can then do ‘fun stuff’ with. I really like the idea of art through data visualization and this is my first serious project to do that (though Baby Saatchi may also turn into that...

Netfarms Update

I’ve updated Netfarms to try to attract small business sites as well as still focusing on student free sites. The idea is also to upload some more useful tutorials to the forum area for working with WordPress, so that any client or student who asks can have some resources all in one place that are actually useful. Sites are pitched...

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