Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Finally I've updated my own little piece of internet real estate. It's only taken 7 years to get round to it. As fun a project as it was, developing my own ActionScript 1.0 3D engine all those years ago, the old site ( www.uk79.com ) is a little dated now to say the least, with an entrance page, recommendations for processors and screen resolution, total neglect for accessibility and search engines, so on and so forth. It was all so cutting edge in the early 21st century, at a time when Flash and animation was going to rule the www, but it was definitely time to revamp and update. jayhollingum.com still needs a bit of work and a few tweaks to it, but it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to maintain and develop further.

http://www.iia.ie/ As part of my work I ended up at the Irish Internet Association's conference "8 Ways to Sell More Stuff" at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin, last Thursday. http://www.iia.ie/news/item/1627/iias-upcoming-conference-8-ways-to-sell-more-stuff-is-a-load-of-pants/ As a developer I wasn't expecting to learn too much from a conference about selling and online business, but then it's always good to keep up to speed with all areas of your work, and understanding business in relation to IT systems and websites is probably as important as making sure an index is properly optimised on a database table or some other uber-geeky thing like that. An Post http://www.anpost.ie http://www.iloveshopping.ie/ The afternoon started off, after some tea and coffee and very nice short bread biscuits, with a talk from the Conference's sponsor, An Post. They were basically flogging their service for parcel delivery to internet businesses that need a delivery se...