Author: Mary Somerville

Work

New job and lots to learn

by Mary Somerville

So in October of last year I started a new job working for a design agency in Glasgow. It is quite different from any other job I have been in before. I am one of 5 developers while there is 2 designers, so this is the biggest company I have worked for. My job is […]

Work

Looking for a new job

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So the company I was working for, Maestro Sports, didn’t do as well as they were hoping in their first full year of business. Personally I think that was due to some poor management decicions on what it was they were selling. If you are selling a product then pick a name, price, and start […]

Web Development

Updating Joomla 1.7 to 2.5

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Yeh, I really should have updated a 1.7 site by now but it comes down to getting the time, and I have the time now as I move sites onto a new server. So how did I update. I started by doing the obvious, Googling it, and then read a few answers to see what […]

Fun

Eminem at Glasgow Summer Sessions

by Mary Somerville
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Yeah I like Eminem. He is one of very few artists I will listen to when im happy/sad/going out/staying in any time and his music always makes me feel better. The Glasgow Summer Sessions weren’t exactly a resounding success, mainly due to the amount of “out their face” teenies on the Saturday, but music wise […]

Work

Making Help Video’s and showing them

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At work we have been developing an online application for managing football clubs. It is a big system which needed good documentation to help users get started wth it. Along with documentation I started making help video’s for users to watch. I always find it easier to explain features when showing it to someone, and […]

Work

PHP Support Ticket System

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Since starting out as a web developer I have worked with a number of design agencies and am currently working for a Glasgow based agency who decided to develop their own web application. Since December I have been part of a team working on a web based football management application called the Maestro Sports System. […]

Fun

New Bike

by Mary Somerville
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So the mountain bike I got when I was 12 was getting a bit old, and the bloody tier kept going flat, so I decided to get a new one. My boyfriend is a lot more into sport than I am and has been mountain biking with his dad for years, so he was able […]

Fun

Aberlour, and its sunny!

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So we have been going up north to Aberlour for the same dates for the last three years and its nearly always the same. Bit cold with showers and if the sun comes out the wind chills you to death anyway. But not this year! It was actually warm, and sunny and it didn’t rain […]

Fun

New Cooker! Yeh its the little things

by Mary Somerville

So getting a new cooker usually isn’t that exciting but since i’ve been using a piece of crap that just burns everything for 4 years this was a pretty big day! We decided it was time to get a new cooker when closing it with at a certain angle while bashing it with your hip […]

Fun

Noooo minecraft server is gone!

by Mary Somerville
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Yip, all those hours and hour gone….just gone….. Gutted. So let me explain what I am talking about. One of the guys at work has always played Minecraft and was talking about it one day in the office and myself and the other developer decided to download it and see what it was like. Neadless […]