About me


I'm a software developer most well known for the 'Cricket Coach' series of PC games.

I'm skilled with both C++ (see Cricket Coach etc) and PHP/Javascript/MySQL projects.

Whilst a programmer at heart I've gained valuable experience over the last 10 years in the business of software development.

I'm also a huge sports fan, which explains why most of my work has been sports related!

Life in Spain

In June 2010 I relocated to the south of Spain, Malaga to be precise. In this article I want to briefly explain how I have gotten on. I’m writing this mainly because of the patronising nature of books on the subject of ‘Moving to Spain’. I found these to be full of stuff that was [...]

Sony Vaio F11 - Review/Thoughts

I recently purchased a Sony Vaio F11 laptop, which has become my main work machine. I chose it over a Dell Studio 17, no other machines came close to consideration. I’ll update this post with my thoughts on the machine.

It’s got the Intel Core i5 – 520 processor, 4GB Ram, 500GB Hard disk.

Early thoughts:

Keyboard: Fantastic [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 vs Windows 7

In a matter of days Ubuntu 10.04 will be released, this is the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution. In many ways this could be described as the best and most user friendly Linux of all time. If a Linux distribution was ever going to be suitable for the desktops of the masses [...]