Welcome to my small part of the Web. This page is here as my personal web portal to document my academic, technological and social advancements. The site will feature extensive technical essays and other supporting material created during my degree study. I will also outline current and future projects in the hope of providing information which is of some value to others.

My name is John Large, and I am a qualified Web Developer and IT technician. I have a good working knowledge of CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP, MYSQL & Network/Server Architectures such as Server 2003/IIS and LAMP.

I am also a keen IT technician & have been building PC's and other machines for many years now. My passion for IT hardware began a long time ago with Atari's, Amiga's and my good old Packard Bell 386. Since then I have owned dozens of Pc's and various other hardware platforms, which have taken the shape of file servers, gaming machines, web servers and media centers. For instance. I currently own 4 PC's and a laptop, I have a file server and web server created from an old Xbox console, and I have another xbox console converted to run as a Media center thanks to the XBMC project. I have our entire house networked consisting of hardwired and wifi access. I also run a ethernet router and switch to allow access to each machine on the network and ultimately access to my 8mbit adsl pipe.

I am currently studying for an MSc and as such have little time to update things here, but I will try my best to keep it fresh.

Copyright John Large 2006