Ben Davies

Hi, I'm a web developer from Portsmouth in the UK. I currently work for TIBCO Software, and do a bit of freelance development, mostly using a LAMP stack. I play the guitar (badly!), and love to cycle (slowly!). Latest ramblings about technical and non-technical stuff below...

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Watchdog shown at E3 by Ubisoft. It looks very interesting! Can't wait to give it a go. Nice to see some new IP and some new game mechanics.

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Stuff to do whilst not gaming

Watch: Band of Brothers Safe House Man on a Ledge  21 Jump Street MI:4 30 Rock Firefly How I Met Your Mother Justified True Blood The Pacific

Read: Javascript: The Good Parts Game of Thrones: Book 3 Smashing Magazine Series A Book Apart Series JQuery: Novice to Ninja It's not about the bike Every second counts 

Web Dev: Tweak this blog

Finish my on-line CV Sort out my website Coding: Learn some Python Learn some Ruby Learn some C++ Maybe a few of these to start: http://learncodethehardway.org/ 

Fitness:  Get in the gym (3 times a week minimum)  Cycle at some point this week Stop eating crap! 

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever

Lance Armstrong

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Tumblr theming

I've had the "joy" of working with Tumblr theming recently. Wow, what an absolute mess! 

Out goes the familiarity of consciously breaking projects into logical file and folder structures for themes, scripts and styles. Tumblr simply allows you to place the entire lot into a blender, put it on full whack for 30 seconds, and pour out a nasty mess.

I hear it's come on a long way in the past 12 months, but it still has a long way to go. Having to add in hacks just to differentiate between posts and custom pages is not fun :(

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One week ... zero gaming #1

Right, I've had enough! I need to go cold turkey for one week. There are so many interesting things that I really want to do, quite the backlog really... and all I seem to be doing is jumping into ranked games of League of Legends again and again.

So as of tonight, I'm not going to be gaming for an entire week, on any platform. I don't expect It'll be too hard, but I am just curious to see how much stuff I can get done without sinking time into gaming, and curious to see how much I miss it.