Patchrobe

I'm please to announce the go live of phase one of http://www.matthewhancock.co.uk

This was a rapid development with all components live in just over a week of the site being commissioned. There is some very interesting automated mail functionality. We're looking forward to further expansion of the site in the future and wish Matthew the very best with his campaign.

Every now and then a man has to take the risk of being laughed at by his peers. It is therefore with some trepidation that I am announcing that I have started an open source project.

I was originally going to call it the Self-Healing Infrastructure Tool but that made for a really bad acronym. Hence, I've decided to call it the Self-Healing Architecture Failover Tool. The SHAFT framework is still a pretty silly name but what the hell...

I am pleased to announce that I've finally taken the running leap off the entrepreneurial cliff, and am now serving my clients as an independent company, Patchrobe Limited.

Many thanks must go to my colleagues at Powdermonkey who have provided me with invaluable lessons over the last three years and have provided me with the framework I needed to bring things up to speed.

This is going to be hard, hard work but hopefully also a massive opportunity for personal development and growth and also, with some well-directed effort and a following wind, a means of paying the bills.

I am please to announce the go-live of http://www.lotus-landes.com

This French-language site is a simple brochure for a Lotus Cars track testing service, which operates in conjunction with Marcassus Sport

This was a simple Drupal project, making use of the CCK, Embedded Video Field and Views modules.

The re-designed site for Dicks Sand Bar is now in operational acceptance testing at http://dicks.patchrobe.com

We are pleased to announce the go-live of Stephen Dean Images at http://www.naturalworldphotographer.com

This was a very interesting project for us as it allowed us to get to grips with the Drupal Imagecache module (in particular the watermarking of images upon upload features).

This was also the first project were all original graphic design and implementation for the site was performed in-house. This lead to some interesting opening experiences with the theme template.php file. A valuable experience.