Computing Corner

About the site

Computing Corner is a web 2.0 blog that was started in April 2007. The discusses important news stories, highlights cools site and gives handy hints. It has lots of other interesting stuff.

Toolbox – This section of the site hosts some of the scripts that I have written for lectures or in my share time and are free to download and use as you like.

Writings – This section has some longer pieces of writting that can not really be called news. It include some of the essays I have written in my time on university, like full project write ups. There are also guides to some of mods that I made to my system.

This site has a strong philosophy of creating standard complement and easy to use pages. So that the loads fast, the site is all valid XHTML, CSS and RSS. The site was designed using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

About author

I am Jonathan Harris the writter, creater and design of this site. I created this site in hopes that some of the little projects and scripts that I have written might be helpful to others. I also have lots of views on the latest tech news and I like to highlight some of the more interesting sites on the internet.

I am current studying my first year Bsc in Computer Network Management and Design at the Univerisity of Portsmouth. I also have an A-levels in Computing science and Information and Communications Technology. So I know a thing or two about computers and technology.

For my personal computer, I have two computers, that I use day to day. I have suped up desktop computer that I custom built which is currently running Windows XP professional, here is a screenshot of my desktop. I also have a very old Compaq NX9005 laptop that I use to take into lectures with me. I’ve also got a screenshot of my laptop and a picture of my desk at uni. I am also thinking about getting myself a Macbook but I am waiting for new release of Mac OSX named Leopard.

If you like the design of this site and would like to see more of my works or contact me about making a web site on commission, view on Web design portofolio. This blog also has a sister site called Spacedmonkey which is a general purpose blog with some interesting articles. If you want my personally information on me, I have a personal profile page.

Credits

• Wordpress.org
  WordPress is an open source blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. Wordpress is extremely well written and completely free to use on your own site. It also has some really useful plugins like -
  • Google sitemap generator
    Gosfsdfsdfsdfsfsfs
  • PXS Mail Form
    Contact form plugin for wordpress.
• (mt) Media Temple
  The web host for this site using the excellent (gs) Grid-Server system which also me to use the web space for anything I want. Including hosting on other sites, including Spacedmonkey.
• Feedburner
  RSS feed management and email subcription site.
• 123-Reg
  The page register all my domain names.
• Google
  Google is simply the best search engine in the world.
  • Analytics – Creating really good web stats of visiter to the site
  • Reader – Wonderful feeds rss/atom reader.
  • Webmaster – Nice way of submitting a sitemap and keeping the search crawls up to date.
• Computingstuff
  A extremely useful internet forum that has helped me at in the design of this site.
• Wackomenace
  A dear friend and all around good egg, Ruben wrote the PHPBB2 RSS 2 mod and also the search plugin for this site.