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That's it. Finito. All my schoolboy days are officially over, which is rather inevitably both exciting and at the same time quite sad. It hasn't really hit me yet: as far as I'm concerned I'm going back to school next September, and I'm just waiting for that moment when my heart catches up with my mind. This will most likely happen in September, when my closest friend begins his endeavours into the field of theoretical physics at Bristol Uni while ...

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In my inappropriate quest to learn some practical PHP during my easter holidays (Inappropriate because I should by all rights be revising for my A Levels) I've actually managed to make something. I bought a very helpful book on PHP and MySQL called 'Practical PHP and MySQL: Build Eight Dynamic Web Applications'. As you might have guessed, this is exactly what I've needed to get me beyond the low-level processing I can code in PHP, even ...

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After 6 months of meticulous work and the tedious process of writing up documentation (this is between lengthy bouts of procrastination obivously), at 10:50am this morning I handed in my printed and bound A2 Level ICT coursework. All 336 pages of it. And thats being conciseI really should have taken a photo for proof. It's very smexy.. And the worst thing is I still can't unwind: I think this is because I've got a busy first few days of holiday, and ...

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Ruby on Rails, my new favourite plaything in the last days of 'freedom' before the throngs of academic life, which is grating at my very soul, consumes me again. Actually, I love learning, and I love school, I just hate my ICT Project, which I should be doing as I type this. But anyway, the point, as I veer myself back on topic, is that yesterday, I finally took the plunge into Ruby on Rails. The thing that always confused me about ...

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