Hi, and welcome back.

This is my first proper post in almost two months, so can I first apologies for the radio silence. Many reasons for this: really hyper busy in last 2007, then was struck down (like everyone else in London) by some horrible bug and bed-ridden for over a week, and then I had to get on a plane and fly off on Holiday.

But now I’m back, a little bit jet lagged and certainly NOT tanned!

One strange side effect of suffering the effects at the edge of Cyclone Helen was that I had quite a lot of time to think. And this thinking allowed me to really get my head together for 2008. There is so much that I want to do, and so much that needs to be done. So without further delay, here are my top 5 things to do in the first half of 2008:

1) Sort out this website

Yes, there is no denying it, this website is a little bit rubbish. It needs a major overhaul. The ibrow.com site should really be focused on promoting ibrow as a company and business, but still with my personality - it shouldn’t just contain my ramblings about whatever I happen to think about. (Edit : the site you are seeing now is a definite improvement on what it was! - april 2008)

2) Get the ball rolling for forking Timesheet.php

I’ve had a load of feedback since writing my entry about forking Timesheet.php, from here and Sourceforge. I need to get the ball rolling on this otherwise it’ll never get started.

3) Find some great people to work with.

If all goes according to plan, ibrow will be getting a load of work in over the coming months - more than just little old me can handle. It’s scary, but exciting. And I definitely need to find some great people to help me out.

4) Learn more

So many things I want to learn in 2008, there is so much out there to do - where do I start?!

5) Write more

Simple really, write more on the blog - and good quality entries, not just of the “I’m on holiday” kind.

Expect much more from this site over the next coming months. Also, I’d love your feed back, so please let me know what you like/don’t like about this blog.

Thanks, and 2008, here we come!!!

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How very exciting. My ReallySimpleContentCache class has just been approved for PhpClasses.Org

You can see the ReallySimpleContentCache class page here, and also the trackback url is here

One day when I have time I’ll write up a little tutorial for this, but not today - England play France!

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Welcome to the brand new (yet pretty much identical) ibrow website!
I have decided to go ahead and start up this blog type thing proper as a way to start trying to get more people to know about ibrow. However, there are plenty of ideas afoot, so I didn’t want the ibrow site to be purely about the blog - which is why I have moved the blog from the root to the /blog/ directory and then I updated this page. Shouldn’t take me more than an hour or so I thought. What a muppet, it is now 2:36 am and I have just finished.
I HATE mod_rewrite - in a sort of "oooh, it’s really good" but "argh" type of a way.
Anyway, Google, if you can hear me, I’ve updated this site and created a site map, so please update.

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MyLocalTileShop has been shortlisted for the category "Excellence in Tile Marketing" in this year’s The Tile Association Awards.

MyLocalTileShop has been developed by ibrow for the UK’s largest tile manufacturer, BCT Ltd to offer a new and innovative way for BCT to showcase their huge range of tiles and to also add an additional channel of sale for it’s 2,500 resellers. The site has been designed and developed to maximise search engine optimisation, both from external sites and from within the internal search engine itself. The prime objective of MyLocalTileShop is to allow users to find exactly what they are looking for in their local area.

One of the most popular areas of MyLocalTileShop is the VirtualTiler, a Flash application which enables users to design their perfect tile wall without leaving their desk. Users can now see exactly how their choice of tiles will look together on their wall and has proved to be a big success, already attracting an average of over 400 unique visits per day.

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