Moving forward...

It seems that I spend all my time programming, doing paper work and speaking to clients that I never have any time to update this blog. Hopefully that will change soon, as I have decided to go into full time employment. That doesn't mean I'm getting rid of Ampzone.com though.

In taking on some regular employment, I hope to be able to give that job my all while at the office, and then at home be able to put some time towards my own projects (probably at the weekends). I have one project in closed alpha testing at the moment which I look forward to finishing and putting into an open beta test in the summer.

I also hope to put a bit more time into this blog and my twitter. I really want to start sharing some of my code and tutorials which I think people will find interesting. I'm also thinking about some plans with YouTube. But that's in early stages at the moment.

I have other project ideas as well, but for now, I will just concentrate on the one (slightly smaller) project that I have made good progress on so far. I'm also thinking of redesigning this site, as I have some new ideas and feel I can do better now.

So changes coming, this will hopefully mean more updates, but may be a few months yet before it happens.

In other news, a project I have been heavily involved in has recently launched and new versions are coming out regularly. Currently in beta, SoundTrackToYour.com is open for everyone to start putting together the soundtracks to your life.

SoundtrackToYour.com is a project by Philtinium LTD which they have included me in the development of. Along with a small group of other very talented developers, we have worked towards building this web app to the specifications of the directors. We have a few new features to implement and are constantly bug fixing at the moment.

So that's all for now but I hope to be back soon.

Slightly updated version of Website

The full Ampzone.com site is still on it's way, this slightly updated version is just preparing the way for it.

Progress of this website has been slow due to work I've been doing on other projects which are coming along well. Mainly I have been working with a group called Philtinium on a big web project launching this summer. I'll reveal more information about this in the future, but I'm looking forward to the launch.

In other news, I'm continuing to develop using Drupal which I hope to develop an release some modules for in the future. The more I learn about it, the better I find it is. I have an idea for another big project which I may build using Drupal in the near future. Drupal 7 released a short while back, still haven't had a chance to play about with it yet, but my initial look did not disappoint. Sticking to Drupal 6 at the moment though as certain key modules are not yet stable for Drupal 7 yet. I check the requirements of new projects against Drupal 7 first though so when something suitable comes along I will go with it.

My client Last Try Wines has been doing well. Their blog and twitter account are going strong and the site is beginning to establish itself. Plenty of ideas for future developments as well.

Sonic Cam Productions has launched their first full length Dr Who film which is really great and they've managed to include some amazing special effects. Updates are planned for their site very soon.

And City Access Training has gone through a few changes. I have worked on the site to significantly improve the design while changing the focus of the site to a particular area of the business. Having now settled on the content for the site, the design could be updated to really fit the content appropriately.

Hope to have Ampzone.com finished very soon now and to be blogging more frequently. I have plenty of thoughts, ideas and discoveries while working on projects so I really want to share them. And of course, I welcome feedback in the comments below. Feel free to disagree with me.

A late HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Apologies for the lateness of this. But a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to EVERYONE.

Unfortunately the site isn't together enough to have a whole Christmas theme yet. But I hope to have one next year. If all goes to plan it will be an interesting year with this website. I have lots planned, but need to get a few core features finished first. I have at least 3 articles I want to write as soon as I have time. Plus an idea for a series of articles which I think could be very useful. You'll have to wait to see what it is all about though.

I'll end by wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR for Saturday.